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Nodosauridae

Edmontonia

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Edmontonia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Edmontonia
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (76.5–69 Mya)
Place
North America · Canada
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Nodosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Ankylosaurs without the tail club.
Edmontonia reconstruction by Mariana Ruiz (aka:LadyofHats)
Reconstruction · Mariana Ruiz (aka:LadyofHats) (CC0)

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.

What we know

  • Named by Sternberg, 1928.
  • Fossils found in North America and Canada.

What we guess

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