Parasaurolophus — Skull
The crowned instrument of the Cretaceous.
This cast presents the unmistakable backward-sweeping crest in full, a slender tube of bone arcing back past the rear of the skull. The hollow crest carried looping nasal passages that ran up its length and returned, an anatomy long interpreted as a resonating chamber that may have produced low, carrying calls.
Each cast is finished by hand, the long curve of the crest and the narrow beak rendered in matte tones that let the architecture read clearly against a pale wall.
CT studies of the hollow crest revealed convoluted nasal tubes that are widely thought to have allowed the animal to produce deep, resonant calls.
Parasaurolophus walkeri was first described in 1922 from a partial skull and skeleton recovered in Alberta, Canada.
The crest was among the most elaborate of any duck-billed dinosaur, approaching roughly a metre in length.
Parasaurolophus — Skull
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