Parasaurolophus

Classification

Diet	Herbivore
Habitat	Terrestrial
Era	Late Cretaceous
Family	Hadrosauridae
Genus	Parasaurolophus
Bio Group	Medium Herbivore

Size

Height (m)	3
Length (m)	10
Weight (kg)	2,500

Rating

Base Appeal	24
Appeal (Per $1MM)	133.3
Appeal (Per Hectare)	168.8

Parasaurolophus

Median

Stats

Lifespan	43 - 102
Resilience	51
Attack	10
Defence	0
Medical Dart Resistance	82
Sedative Resistance	82
Poison Resistance	125

Environmental Needs

Comfort threshold	30%
Grassland (m²)	7600	59%
Forest (m²)	5200	41%
Preferred Paleobotany	Conifers
	Palms
	Rotten Wood
	Ginkgo
Harmful Paleobotany	Horsetails
	Cycads
	Grasses

Social Group	4 - 14
Ideal Population	4 - 21

Unlock requirements

Unlocked by retrieving the fossil from one of the following dig sites:

Dig Sites	Fossil Quality	Fossil Quantity	Locations	Duration	Cost
Dinosaur Park Formation	★	2	North America \| Canada \| Alberta	2m	$60,000
Dinosaur Park Formation	★★★	2	North America \| Canada \| Alberta	2m	$60,000
Kirtland Formation	★★	5	North America \| USA \| New Mexico	2m	$75,000
	★★★	3
	★	1
Nemegt Formation	★★	5	Asia \| Mongolia \| Gobi Desert	2m	$90,000
Nemegt Formation	★★★	2	Asia \| Mongolia \| Gobi Desert	2m	$90,000

Incubation

Duration	2m 42s - 3m
Cost	180,000

Disease

Immune	None
Susceptible	Avian Influenza

Description

Parasaurolophus's crested skull makes this a distinctive dinosaur within Jurassic World. Its name means 'near-crested lizard'. They are able to move on two or four legs.

Discovery

The first identified fossils for Parasaurolophus came from near Sand Creek, along the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada. Since then further fossils were located in the Fruitland Formation of New Mexico in North America, and the Kaiparowits Formation in Utah.

Paleoecology

Species of Parasaurolophus can be found across much of North America. In Atlanta the climate was warmer than today, with rivers and floodplains leading into marshes. Conifers formed the common canopy, with ferns, tree ferns and angiosperms for the lower brush. In New Mexico the environment was predominantly swampy in the region, and silted in the lowlands of the region. The known sites in Utah bordered the Western Interior Seaway, which once separated the two landmasses of what is now North America. The region was wet and humid, with peat swamps, ponds and lakes upon an ancient floodplain.