Anodontosaurus Anodontosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Anodontosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (75.6–67 Mya)
- Place
- Canada · Alberta, Canada · Montana, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
Anodontosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaurs within the subfamily Ankylosaurinae. It is known from the entire span of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation (mid Late Campanian to “middle” Maastrichtian stage, about 72.8-67 Ma ago) of southern Alberta, Canada, and is also known from the Dinosaur Park Formation (75.6 Ma ago). It contains two species, A. lambei and A. inceptus.
What we know
- Named by Sternberg, 1929.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.
- Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.