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Euoplocephalus

author: Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

reference: t-din03-16101

Image Size 300 DPI: 27 * 12 cm

Euoplocephalus tutus was an ankylosaurid -lenght 6m, weight around 2 tons, first ankylosaurid discovered with armored shutters that it could slide down to cover its eyelids -lived between 85 and 65 million years ago, in the Campanian- Maastrichtian age of the late Cretaceous -long tail and heavy club would have made a serious defensive weapon -was an herbivore -brain was relatively small and intelligence was low among the dinosaurs -Over 40 fossils have been found in Alberta, Canada and Montana, USA.

Keywords for this photo:

ANIMAL - CRETACEOUS - DINOSAUR - EARTH - EUOPLOCEPHALUS - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MESOZOIC - ORNITHISCHIA -