Edmontonia Edmontonia

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Edmontonia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
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

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.