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Edmontosaurus Shed Tooth
 
SITE LOCATION: Lance Formation, Wyoming, USA
TIME PERIOD: Cretaceous (~66.8 million years old)
Data: Edmontosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. It contains two known species: Edmontosaurus regalis and Edmontosaurus annectens. Fossils of E. regalis have been found in rocks of western North America that date from the late Campanian stage of the Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago, while those of E. annectens were found in the same geographic region but in rocks dated to the end of the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. Edmontosaurus was one of the last non-avian dinosaurs, and lived alongside dinosaurs like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus shortly before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Edmontosaurus included some of the largest hadrosaurid species, measuring up to 12 metres (39 ft) long and weighing around 4.0 metric tons (4.4 short tons). Evidence does exist in the form of two fossilized specimens housed at the Museum of the Rockies for an even greater maximum size of 15 m (49 ft) and weighing 9.07 metric tons (10.00 short tons) for Edmontosaurus annectens. Several well-preserved specimens are known that include not only bones, but in some cases extensive skin impressions and possible gut contents. It is classified as a genus of saurolophine (or hadrosaurine) hadrosaurid, a member of the group of hadrosaurids which lacked large, hollow crests, instead having smaller solid crests or fleshy combs. This dinosaur was a herbivore, and would shed old worn teeth frequently to be replaced by new ones. The tooth are small, as was typical for the species, which had large numbers of small teeth for eating vegetation.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Family: †Hadrosauridae
Genus: †Edmontosaurus

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  • Taken with Canon Canon PowerShot SX120 IS
  • Focal Length 12.8 mm
  • Exposure Time 1/60
  • f Aperture f/3.5
  • ISO Speed 80
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