Iguanodon

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Iguanodon

• Means Iguana Tooth
• By Matthew

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Cool Facts

• It was the second dinosaur scientifically named.
• It was one of the first dinosaur able to chew,
  reptiles in general cant chew their food like
  mammals.
• Iguanodons used their front legs to gather food
• It had no real teeth, tons of cheek teeth

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What it looked like

• It has a beak and spiked thumbs.
• Their back legs are column like and the front are
  thinner and lighter.
• They walked on all four legs.

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Diet

• The Iguanodon was a herbivore that probably ate
  cycads, conifers, and ginkgoes.

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How it looked

• The Iguanodon was 20-33 ft. long, 9ft tall, and
  4-5 tons

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Where and Why

• The Iguanodon lived in the Cretaceous period
  about 135-125 million years ago.
• The nemesis hypothesis is that the Earth collided
  with comets from Oort cloud

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Fossils

• Fossils have been found in Europe, north
  Africa,and the US.
• The Iguanodon was Usually preyed upon.

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Resources