Iguanodon

Cretaceous plant-eater genus

Iguanodon is the genus name for a group of large plant-eating dinosaurs that lived roughly 125 million years ago.

As a scientific classification, it appears in italics in formal writing: Iguanodon bernissartensis was discovered in a Belgian coal mine.

The genus was one of the earliest dinosaurs to be scientifically described, in 1825. (Lowercase iguanodon is the common noun for any member of the genus.)

classification

Cretaceous

Final Mesozoic period

archosaur

habitat

floodplain

Flood-prone riverside lowland

  • EuropeSmallest inhabited continent
  • North AmericaWestern Hemisphere's northern continent
  • AsiaLargest continental landmass

Africa · herd · migration · fern · conifer · cycad · horsetail · riverbank · forest · wetland

history

Crystal Palace

Iron-framed glass exhibition hall

predators

Spinosaurus

Sail-spined Cretaceous theropod

Albertosaurus

relatives

hadrosaurs

Duck-billed dinosaur family

taxonomy

specimen

Individual for examination

  • genusTaxonomic rank above species
  • speciesFinest taxonomic rank
Categories
Opposites
dietary classification

IguanodonTyrannosaurus rex

Large theropod dinosaur species

Velociraptor · Spinosaurus · Giganotosaurus · Megalosaurus · theropod

Family

iguana

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