Iguanodon

The iguanodon was large a Dinosaure Herbivore which lived at the time of the Crétacé, between 140 and 110 million years before our era. Its name, meaning “tooth of Iguana”, attests the resemblance of its teeth jugales crenelated to those of the current animal. Length from 6 to 10 m and weighing more than 4 tons, it was biped-quadruped. One found tracks fossilized with the trace of the four members. However, the majority reveal only the prints of the feet, and it is supposed that small iguanodon had the too short arms to make use of it during their displacements. The hands of the iguanodon, very particular, had 5 specialized fingers:

  • an inch out of spur, which probably played a very effective part of defense against the predatory ones. While being rectified, the iguanodon was able to attack the throat and the belly of the largest Théropode S.
  • three claws rather broad, acting as shoes when it went to four legs.
  • “a small” finger articulated, able to be folded up on the palm with a rotation of the wrist, being used for gripping.
The iguanodon lived in herds, mainly in the savanna of the marshy deltas, grazed the ferns and mastiquait lengthily them. One a long time represented the iguanodon frankly rectified on his rear-axle unit (see the old illustration). It is known now that its tail was rather rigid and did not allow to fold up itself easily on the ground. It went the horizontal back rather, with the rather low head, balanced by its heavy tail.

The iguanodon belongs to the family of the Ornithopode S and with the order of the Ornithischien S. It was the second dinosaur has to receive a scientific name, thanks to Gideon Mantell in 1825. But a tibia, found in 1809 and only identified in the Years 1970, leaves think that it is about the first dinosaur which the man discovered. The principal specimens were found in Europe (England, Belgium, Spain, Germany, France), some remainders in Tunisia, Morocco: with Immouzer Marmoucha, Mongolia, Thailand, and a different species in the Utah and the South Dakota. The most skeletons (about thirty) and most complete were found in 1878 in a coal mine, with Bernissart in Belgium. They are exposed in a specialized room of the Muséum of the natural science of Belgium to Brussels.

External bonds

  • Jurassic World - detailed Card of Iguanodon
  • GigaDino site - many cards detailed on the dinosaurs.
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