Iguanodon

Iguanodon bernissartensis

Iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and named. It had a distinctive thumb spike that was initially placed on its nose by early paleontologists. It could walk on both two and four legs.

Physical Description

Measurement	Value	Human Scale
Chiều dài	10.0 m	about as long as 2 cars end-to-end
Height	3.0 m	—
Cân nặng	3.4 t	comparable to 3.4 small cars

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Iguanodon was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Early Mesozoic Era

Iguanodon lived during the Cretaceous Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 145,0 to 100,5 million years ago.

The Cretaceous saw continued dinosaur evolution with the rise of ornithopods and early ceratopsians. Flowering plants first appeared and began to transform terrestrial ecosystems. Spinosaurus and other large theropods lived during this time.

Discovery & Naming

Được đặt tên bởi	Gideon Mantell
Năm khám phá	1825
Địa điểm khám phá	Sussex, England

Phân loại

Dinosauria → Ornithischia → Iguanodon

Bird-hipped dinosaurs

The second major dinosaur order, characterized by a bird-like hip structure. Includes a diverse array of herbivorous dinosaurs such as stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ceratopsians, and hadrosaurs.