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Iguanodon
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IGUANODON, a large extinct herbivorous land reptile from the Wealden formation of western Europe, almost completely known by numerous skeletons from Bernissart, near Mons, Belgium.
Iguanodon
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(gwn´dn) [Gr., = iguana tooth], herbivorous ornithiscian dinosaur, characterized by teeth similar to those of the iguana, a horny beak, spikelike thumbs, and a powerful tail.
"Basal Iguanodontia". in Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 413-437. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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Ouranosaurus nigeriensis is a 7 m-long (23 ft.) iguanodont dinosaur. It was discovered in 1973, in 110 million-year-old Early Cretaceous deposits in the Saharan wastes of Niger.
Muttaburrasaurus, a new iguanodontid (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 319-349.
Molnar, R. E., 1996.
The Function of Stegosaurus Plates
Gideon Mantell's Discovery of the Dinosaur Iguanodon
Early Cretaceous Dinosaurs Alive Brookfield Zoo ...
They comprised two main groups: cerapods -- which included the ornithopods, pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians -- and ornithopods -- included the hadrosaurs and the iguanodonts, ...
 See also: Reptile, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus
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