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Ankylosaurus
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
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One of the largest armoured dinosaurus, Ankylosaurus had a wide, heavily armoured skull and a large tail club. It had a large gut space for digesting plant material.
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- Pronounced
- an-KIE-loh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- stiff lizard
- Length
- 7m
- Height
- 2.5m
- Weight
- 4000kg - 7000kg
- Teeth
- gringing teeth with a horny beak at the front
- Diet
- herbivorous
- Food
- plant material
- How it moved
- on 4 legs
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(74 - 67 million years ago) - Found in
- Canada, USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Ankylosauromorpha, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurus
- Named by
- Brown (1908)
- Type species
- magniventris
