Anatotitan

Anatotitan lived with the Crétacé superior in North America there are 69 to 65 million years. It is a dinosaur with duck nozzle, a biped Herbivore which lived in herd.

It had several hundreds of solid teeth allowing him mastiquer a very hard vegetation. It had large eyes, a fine hearing and an excellent sense of smell. It was approximately 12 meters long and had a long and low cranium (one of cranium discovered was 1,18 m long).

Anatotitan was discovered in 1882 by Cope which called then it Diclonius , then it was named Trachodon mirabilis . It was described by Marsh Lull and Wright in 1942, which re-elected it Anatosaurus copei .

In 1990 Ralph Chapman and Michael Brett-Surman declared that Anatosaurus copei was rather different from Edmontosaurus to make a separate kind of it. They created the name of Anatotitan , the Latin anas (“duck”) and of the Greek Titan, which was a race of divine giants, referring at the same time to the size of the animal and its “duck nozzle”.

Its name means giant duck

  • Time: Cretaceous (- 144 M.A. with - 65 M.A.)

  • Size: 12 m of length, 4 m in height, 4 tons
  • Habitat: Food America
  • Mode: herbivore

Inventory of the found fossils

  • AMNH 5730 and 5886: two almost complete skeletons.
  • many other elements.

Internal bonds

  • See List of the dinosaurs

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Simple: Anatotitan

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