Anklyosaurus

Anklyosaurus Info

An Anklyosaurus

The Ankylosaurus is a herbivorous dinosaur known for its armored body and dangerous tail that lived in what is now western north America about 68 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. This dinosaur could be around 20 to 26 feet long and weighed between 4.8 to 8 tons. The Ankylosaurus is quadrupedal, with horns on its head and spikes all over its body. Their club tail was thought to be used to fend off predators or for fighting other members of its species for food or territory. Its name is a combination of the Greek words ankulos meaning bent or crooked and saurus meaning lizard, translating its name to “fused lizard”, this is in reference to how the bones of the Ankylosaurus were fused together to strengthen their bodies.

  

Armor

An Anklyosaurus Skull An Anklyosaurus

The armor of an Ankylosaurus is its most discerning feature, granting it great protection from predators this armor was made of knobs and plates called osteoderms or scutes. While these plates are thought to have been all over the ankylosauruses body their exact placement on the body is unknown, but they can be inferred based on information from other related species.

  

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Frequently Asked Questions

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plusWhat is the largest Dinosaur?

The Largest know dinosaur is the sauropod Argentinosaurus that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in modern day Argentina. This dinosaur measured to about 98-115 feet long and weighed about 65-80 tons.

plusWhen did dinosaurs go extinct?

Most dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago in a major mass extinction caused by a meteor impact on the planet, this caused nearly all non-Avian dinosaurs to go extinct.

plusHow many species of dinosaur were there?

There were over 900 distinct species of dinosaur.

plusWhat was the first ever discovered dinosaur?

The first ever recorded event of a dinosaur discovery was in the late 1600s where large bones were found in a slate quarry in England, the bones found belong to a dinosaur known as the Megalosaurus.

plusWhat was the oldest dinosaur ever found?

The oldest dinosaur discovered is called the Nyasasaurus which is dated to have lived about 233.23 to 231.4 million years ago which is about 12 million years before other early dinosaurs.

plusWhat dinosaurs lived in Michigan?

No dinosaur bones have ever been found in Michigan due to natural forces eroding the sediments from the Mesozoic Era before the bones had a chance to fossilize, this makes it impossible to tell what dinosaurs ever lived in this area. However, Michigan does have other prehistoric bones from after the Mesozoic Era such as the bones of Woolly Mammoths, The American Mastodon (Our state fossil), and Prehistoric Whales.

plusWhere are most dinosaur fossils found?

Most dinosaur fossils are found in the United States or China.

plusWhat was the biggest Aquatic dinosaur?

The largest known Aquatic dinosaur was the Shastasaurus which resembles the modern-day dolphin though they are actually not related. This dinosaur was about 69 feet long and weighed about 81.5 tons.

plusWhat was the largest Avian dinosaur?

The largest Avian dinosaur was the Quetzalcoatlus a large pterosaur, which ranged from 33-36 feet long.

plusDid humans and dinosaurs ever coexist?

No excluding non-Avian dinosaurs and megafauna early humans and dinosaurs have never coexisted, dinosaurs were extinct around 66 million years ago while species resembling modern humans only appeared around 3-4 million years ago.