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 Ankylosaurus 

 Meaning: stiff lizard 

 Pronounced: an-KIE-loh-sore-us 


 
How Ankylosaurus may have looked.

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Length: up to 7 m

Diet: herbivorous


Period: Upper Cretaceous

Ages: Campanian

Time span: 74-67 Ma


Found in: Canada, USA

Ankylosaurus scale

Notes: One of the largest ankylosaurs, with a wide, heavily armoured skull, a wide body, with a large gut space for digesting plant material. It also had a large tail club.

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