Very HardEdmontonia
Edmontonia longiceps
ed-mon-TOH-nee-ah· “from Edmonton”
🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Nodosauridae
6.5 m
Length
2 m
Height
3 t
Weight
A heavily armoured nodosaur bristling with bony plates and large forward-pointing shoulder spikes, but with no tail club.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~73–66 million years ago
Found in
Canada
Discovered
Charles Sternberg, 1928
Did you know?
- It had big forward-pointing spikes on its shoulders.
- Rival males may have used the spikes to shove each other.
- Unlike ankylosaurs, it had no bony tail club.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.