Describer

Gilmore, 1945

Time

Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Nomina Dubia

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Ripley Formation, Missouri, US

Fall Under

Hypsibema

Info

Genus

Hypsibema (Cope, 1869) > Hypsibema crassicauda (Cope, 1869) >> Hypsibema missouriensis (Baird & Horner, 1979) > Parrosaurus missouriensis (Gilmore, 1945) > Neosaurus missouriensis (Gilmore vide Gilmore & Stewart, 1945 / Nopcsa, 1923)

Type as Neosaurus missouriensis (Gilmore & Stewart,1945) (To replace preoccupied Neosaurus Gilmore & Stewart, originally identified as a sauropod)

Etymology

Parr lizard, honoring Albert Eide Parr, an American zoologist