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Edmontonia
Edmontonia
F�sil
Clasificaci�n cient�fica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Sauropsida
Superorden: Dinosauria
Orden: Ornithischia
Suborden: Thyreophora
Infraorden: Ankylosauria
Familia: Nodosauridae
G�nero: Edmontonia
Sternberg, 1928
E. longiceps (tipo);
E. rugosidens, a veces puesto en su propio Gro., Chassternbergia, antes un
subg�nero por el Dr. Robert T. Bakker en 1988 (Edmontonia (Chassternbergia)
rugosidens) basado en diferencias en la proporci�n del esqueleto de E. longiceps.
[1][2] This subgenus or genus is not generally accepted;[3][4][Etymology of
Chassternbergia: In honor of Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885-1981), a Canadian
paleontologist who, in 1928, named and described Edmontonia longiceps, a nodosaurid
ankylosaur which Robert Bakker would later use as the basis for proposing the new
nodosaurid family Edmontoniidae, which would include a new subgenus,
Chassternbergia as well as the new genus Denversaurus schlessmani. Sternberg,
honored for his earlier work on Edmontonia longiceps.[5]]
and E. australis,[2] which is known from cervical scutes only, and usually is
considered to be a dubious name.[3]
Usualmente inclu�da en este g�nero es Denversaurus schlessmani ("Schlessman's
Denver lagarto"). Este taxon fue erigido por Bakker en 1988 de un esqueleto del
periodo Maastrichtian tard�o Cret�ceo Lance Formation en South Dakota,[1] but
considered by later workers to belong to Edmontonia rugosidens.[4] The type
specimen of Denversaurus is in the collections of the Denver Museum of Natural
History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science), Denver, Colorado (for which
the genus was named).
[editar] Paleobiolog�a
Edmontonia era redondeado en forma de tanque, con 7 m de long. y 2 m de altura.
Ten�a escudos en su espalda y en cabeza, muchas filas de p�as chatas a lo largo de
su espalda y cola y cuatro grandes espinas saliendo de sus hombros de cada lado,
dos delso cuales estana divididoss en subespinas. These large spikes were probably
used in contests of strength. To protect itself from predators,