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Hadrosauridae

Didanodon

"beautiful-sided tooth"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Didanodon 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Didanodon
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Alberta, Canada
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Didanodon (meaning “beautiful-sided tooth”) is a dubious genus of hadrosaurid from the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.

What we know

  • Named by Osborn, 1902.
  • Fossils found in Alberta, Canada.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Didanodon — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.