Kritosaurus Pronunciation

Fun Facts

• ✓Kritosaurus had a dental battery of up to 800 teeth packed together like cobblestones, constantly replacing worn-out teeth so it could grind tough Cretaceous plants its entire life.
• ✓The famous bump on Kritosaurus's nose was likely not bone at all, but soft tissue, meaning it would almost never fossilize and scientists are still debating exactly what it looked like on a living animal.
• ✓Kritosaurus is considered one of the least understood large hadrosaurs in North America because its skull material is so fragmentary that paleontologists spent decades arguing over which fossils actually belonged to it versus a closely related dinosaur called Gryposaurus.
• ✓Hadrosaurids like Kritosaurus lived right up to the very end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago, meaning this dinosaur was alive during the final chapter before the asteroid impact wiped out non-avian dinosaurs.
• ✓Barnum Brown, the man who discovered Kritosaurus, was so famous for finding dinosaurs that the American Museum of Natural History basically sent him on a permanent fossil-hunting road trip across North America, and he brought back enough bones to fill multiple museum halls.