Edmontonia

Edmontonia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Mounted skeleton of E. rugosidens, specimen AMNH 5665
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Thyreophora
Clade: Ankylosauria
Family: Nodosauridae
Subfamily: Nodosaurinae
Clade: Panoplosaurini
Genus: Edmontonia
Sternberg, 1928
Species
  • E. longiceps Sternberg, 1928 (type)
  • E. rugosidens (Gilmore, 1930 [originally Palaeoscincus rugosidens])
Synonyms
  • Chassternbergia Bakker, 1988

Edmontonia is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is part of the Nodosauridae, a family within Ankylosauria. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Canada), the unit of rock where it was found.

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