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Aside from Iguanodon, the best-known members of the clade include Dryosaurus, Camptosaurus, Ouranosaurus, and the duck-bills, or hadrosaurs. In older sources, Iguanodontidae was shown as a distinct family.
Iguanodon was the largest, best known, and most widespread of all the iguanodontids (family Iguanodontidae), which are closely related to the hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs. Iguanodon was 9 metres (30 feet) long, stood nearly 2 metres tall at the hip, and weighed four to five tons.
But it's easier to recognize the immediate descendants of the ornithopods: hadrosaurs, or "duck-billed" dinosaurs. These much bigger herbivores, like Lambeosaurus and Parasaurolophus , were often distinguished by their ornate crests and prominent beaks.
Hadrosaurs, Iguanodonts, and other Ornithopod dinosaurs. Inform and educate people about dinosaurs, specifically Hadrosaurs and related groups, through scientific theories and discoveries made over the course of their 200 year history.
The fossilised teeth resembled those of the iguana, only many times larger. Iguanas are relatively large lizards, but scaled up the prehistoric owner of the fossilised teeth could have been up to 18 metres or longer. We now know this dinosaur reached a length of about 10 metres.
The closest relative to an Iguanodon isn’t an iguana but hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs. The Iguanodon is closely related to dinos, such as Dryosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Camptosaurus, and Ouranosaurus.
Iguanodon was a large herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period, around 130-125 million years ago. Its name means “iguana tooth,” due to the similarity between its teeth and those of modern-day iguanas.
Let’s embark on a journey through time, unraveling the mysteries of the Iguanodon, a creature that thrived during the Early Cretaceous Period. Table of Contents. Iguanodon Key Facts. Iguanodon Origins, Taxonomy and Timeline. Discovery & Fossil Evidence.
In as much as the Iguanodons strongly resembled the carnivorous dinosaurs, they came from the same lineage as the duck-billed dinosaur. Also known as the Hadrosaurs, the duck-billed dinosaurs were huge in size than the Iguanodons.
The genus Iguanodon belongs to the larger group Iguanodontia, along with the duck-billed hadrosaurs. The taxonomy of this genus continues to be a topic of study as new species are named or long-standing ones reassigned to other genera.