- Type of dinosaur:
- large ornithopod
- Length:
- 13.0m
- Weight:
- 3400kg
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- Teeth:
- horny beak and 1,000 grinding cheek teeth
- Food:
- tough pine needles, cones and twigs
- How it moved:
- on 2 or 4 legs
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 76-66 million years ago
- Found in:
- Canada
Hard conifer needles, twigs and seeeds have been found in Edmontosaurus stomachs. Mummified specimens have some preserved skin, so we know its texture (but not the colour).
© Andrey Atuchin
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
- Named by:
- Lambe (1917)
- Type species:
- regalis
