Dinosaurs 101

EDMONTONIA

ED-mon-TONE-ee-ah

 No one knows what color any of these dinosaurs were.

So we can make Edmon (short for Edmontonia) 

any colors we choose!

Edmon was an herbivore (a plant-eater). He ate low-lying plants, like ferns and cycads . Cycads are seed plants typically characterized by a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff evergreen leaves. 

This nodosaurid ankylosaur (an armored dinosaur with no tail club) was about 20 to 23 ft long and weighed about 3.5 tons. Edmon  had a bulky body, four short, thick legs, wide feet, a short neck, and a stiff tail. It was covered with bony plates and spikes, and had a long, flat skull. The teeth were small and the jaws were weak. I

 Edmontonia means "from Edmonton." This dinosaur was named from a fossil specimen found in 1924 in the Edmonton rock Formation in Alberta, Canada by George Paterson. Fossils have also been found in Montana, USA.

Edmontonia was an armored, tank-like dinosaur that lived  about 76-68 million years ago.

But we like to call him Edmon!