Edmontosaurus vs Iguanodon

Edmontosaurus と Iguanodon のサイズ、食性、分類、地質時代、発見の歴史を詳しく並べて比較します。

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属性 Edmontosaurus Iguanodon
学名 Edmontosaurus regalis Iguanodon bernissartensis
分類 Hadrosauridae Ornithischia
時代 Cretaceous Late Cretaceous Early
食性 Herbivore Herbivore
全長 12.0 m 10.0 m
体重 3.4 m 3.0 m
体重 4.0 t 3.4 t
発見年 1917 1825
発見場所 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Sussex, England
命名者 Lawrence Lambe Gideon Mantell
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Edmontosaurus 12.0 m

about as long as 2 cars end-to-end

Iguanodon 10.0 m

about as long as 2 cars end-to-end

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Edmontosaurus 4.0 t

comparable to 4.0 small cars

Iguanodon 3.4 t

comparable to 3.4 small cars

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Edmontosaurus
100.5 百万年前 Cretaceous Late (Mesozoic) 66.0 百万年前
Iguanodon
145.0 百万年前 Cretaceous Early (Mesozoic) 100.5 百万年前
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Edmontosaurus

Herbivore

Edmontosaurus はシダ、針葉樹、ソテツなどの植物を食べる草食恐竜でした。

Iguanodon

Herbivore

Iguanodon はシダ、針葉樹、ソテツなどの植物を食べる草食恐竜でした。

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分類

Edmontosaurus

クレード: Ornithischia

グループ: Hadrosauridae

(カモノハシ恐竜)

Iguanodon

グループ: Ornithischia

(鳥盤類)

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主な相違点

  • Iguanodon (10 m, ~3,400 kg) lived in the Early Cretaceous of Europe; Edmontosaurus (12 m, ~4,000 kg) lived in the Late Cretaceous of North America — separated by ~65 million years.
  • Both were large ornithopod herbivores that could walk on two or four legs.
  • Iguanodon had a distinctive thumb spike used for defense or foraging; Edmontosaurus had a soft-tissue crest but no spike.
  • Iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs ever named (1825); Edmontosaurus was named nearly a century later (1917).
  • Iguanodon's thumb spike was initially mistaken for a nose horn by early paleontologists.
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Both Edmontosaurus and Iguanodon were herbivores.

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Edmontosaurus lived during the Cretaceous Late while Iguanodon lived during the Cretaceous Early, separated by roughly 79 million years.

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Iguanodon was discovered 92 years earlier, in 1825.

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Edmontosaurus belonged to Hadrosauridae while Iguanodon belonged to Ornithischia.

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