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Edmontosaurus
© Andrey Atuchin
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
Information
Hard conifer needles, twigs and seeeds have been found in Edmontosaurus stomachs. Mummified specimens have some preserved skin, so we know its texture (but not the colour).
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- ed-MON-toe-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Edmonton lizard
- Length
- 13m
- Height
- 3.5m
- Weight
- 3400kg
- Teeth
- horny beak and 1,000 grinding cheek teeth
- Diet
- herbivorous
- Food
- tough pine needles, cones and twigs
- How it moved
- on 2 or 4 legs
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(76 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- Canada
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Euornithopoda, Iguanadontia, Euiguanadontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Iguanodontoidea, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae, Edmontosaurus
- Named by
- Lambe (1917)
- Type species
- regalis
