Edmontonia
Sign in to saveEdmontonia is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now western North America. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Canada), the unit of rocks where it was first found.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Nodosauridae
- Mass
- 3
- Image
- Edmontonia restoration.jpg
- Length
- 4.0
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- Commons category
- Edmontonia
- taxon name
- Edmontonia
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons gallery
- Edmontonia
- start time
- 76500000-0
- end time
- 69000000-0
- location of discovery
- Canada
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- main food source
- herbivore
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Description
- Size and general build
- Distinguishing traits
- Skeleton
- Osteoderms
- Discovery and species
- Phylogeny
- Paleobiology
- Function of the armour
- Paleoecology
- See also
- References
- External links
Edmontonia is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now western North America. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Canada), the unit of rocks where it was first found.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edmontonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.