Talk:Parasaurolophus

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Contents 1 Redundancy 2 Image taxobox 3 parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus 4 Pronunciation

[edit] Redundancy

The line "Fossils of Parasaurolophus have been found across North America, as well as in Canada, where a complete skeleton was found." seems to indicate that Canada is not in North America. I'm not sure if the person who wrote that meant Northern United States and Canada, but as it stands it is just redundant. I'll try to change it.

You can hear what this dinosaur may have looked like here: http://museums.state.nm.us/nmmnh/sci_parasaur.html

But I don't know how to wikify the information. :)

[edit] Image taxobox

Is it ok if I would replace the image in the taxobox by a new one? The old sketch has some anatomical inaccuracies, for example the shape and thickness of the tail. Cheers, Tbc2 15:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Go for it. The new one is much better.Dinoguy2 16:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

The photograph in the artical shows a parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus and calls it a female p. Walkeri Has it been proven that parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus is acually a female. If so maybe it could be mentionted in the artical. thanks Steveoc 86 12:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It seems this idea has been published and should be discussed in the text, though I can't find a cite. It's not open and shut, however, so it's probably best to change the caption. Dinoguy2 15:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks, i found this paper 'Dodson, P., 1975, Taxonomic implications of relative growth in lambeosaurine hadrosaurs. Systematic Zoology v. 24, p. 37-54.' I can only find an extract but apparently it talks about parasaurolophus. The abstract doesn't mention parasaurolphus only Lambeosaurus and corythosaurus. Steveoc 86 17:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The article can be found under the Nov. 22 readings at this site. If that's not working, I can send it by email. J. Spencer 03:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, it doesn't talk about parasaurolophus sadly. Maybe the corythosaurus artical could talk about this. Pad out the artical a bit. The Lambeosaurus artical talks about this but doesn't have a reference, maybe a refernce to the paper could be put in. ThanksSteveoc 86 09:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

I came to this article in the forlorn hope that it would give some clue about pronunciation. I've heard two different stabs at it: ˌpærəsəˈrɑləfəs and ˌpærəˌsɔrəˈlofəs, that is, either a pair of dactyls or three trochees. (I've also heard, once, a variant of the trochaic pronunciation that put primary stress on "saur".) Is there any authority to appeal to here? ACW 19:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure. A Google search on "Parasaurolophus"+"pronounced" appears to give various different pronunciations, none of which appear to be in IPA (which I don't know anyway). This site has a wav file. Lambert (1993) offers "par-a-SORE-a-LOAF-us", and that's the pronunciation I've been using ever since. Firsfron of Ronchester 22:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

There are no standard pronunciations for dinosaur names, unfortunately. I know many people who try to stick to the pronunciation of the root words from Greek, Latin, whatever, though these usually result in... unorthodox pronunciations, like "SOUR-oos" for saurus. Others follow pronunciation by the original author, if available. But I've seen both "para-SORE-a-LOAF-us" and "para-saur-OLOPH-us" in equal proportion. I've laways used the later. I remember Ostrom had a particularly odd sounding pronunciation of Deinonychus, but I can't remember what it was (I used to say "dein-o-NIK-us", but switched to "dein-ON-ick-us" at some point for a reason I forget...). Dinoguy2 01:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Back when I went through my dinosaur phase, I always said it pah-ruh-sore-oh-luh-phus. Just a note. PS: Parasaurolophus are sweet.