- Type of dinosaur:
- large ornithopod
- Length:
- 10.0m
- Weight:
- 4000kg
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- Teeth:
- chewing cheek teeth and horny beak
- Food:
- plant material
- How it moved:
- on 2 or 4 legs
- When it lived:
- Early Cretaceous, 140-110 million years ago
- Found in:
- Belgium,
- England,
- United Kingdom
Iguanodon could probably walk on all fours or on two legs. It had a large thumb spike on the end of its hand, probably to fend-off predators, and the structure of the muscles inside its head suggest it had a very long tongue.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Euornithopoda, Iguanadontia, Euiguanadontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Iguanodontoidea
- Named by:
- Boulenger and van Beneden (1881)
- Type species:
- bernissartensis
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