Anatosaurus

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Anatosaurus
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What does Anatosaurus mean?

• Some other names for Anatosaurus are Anatotitan
  and Trachodon.
• Trachodon meaning rough tooth came from the
  rough surface on the tooth crown.
• Anatosaurus was the classic duck-billed
  dinosaur, and it name was given to the whole
  group of these animals.

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What Does Anatosaurus Mean? Continue

• The name means duck lizard which refers to its
  broad toothless snout.

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What Is The Weight, Length, and Height of The
Anatosaurus

• The Anatosaurus weighed about 5 tons.
• The height and length of the Anatosaurus is 33
  feet long and 8 feet tall.
• The Anatosaurus was almost as big as a bus.

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Was The Anatosaurus A Predator or Prey?

• The Anatosaurus was prey.
• T.rex and Dromaeosaurus were two of the predators
  to the Anatosaurus when the dinosaurs were about
  to become extinct.

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What Type of Diet Did Was The Anatosaurus On.

• The Anatosaurus was a herbivore.
• It ate mostly conifer needles and seeds.
• It had no teeth in its beak, but had hundreds of
  cheek teeth used for grinding up the tough plant
  material that it ate.
• The Anatosaurus had three rows of replaceable
  teeth for a total of 720 teeth if a tooth broke
  of, another replaced it.

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What Does The Anatosaurus Look Like?

• The Anatosaurus had short arms, a long pointy
  tail, three hoofed toes, mitten like hands, a
  flat, sloping head with a wide, toothless beak,
  cheek pouches, and hundreds of closely packed
  cheek teeth.

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Characteristics That The Anatosaurus Has

• The Anatosaurus was a biped, but it could also
  walk on four legs, perhaps to graze low-lying
  plants.
• The Anatosaurus was probably a relatively
  slow-moving dinosaur with few defenses, but may
  have had keen senses to help it survive predators.

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Where Have The Anatosaurus Fossils Been Found?

• The Anatosaurus fossils have been found in the
  USA.
• Three skulls and partial skeleton was found in
  Hell Creek, Montana and other finds in South
  Dakota.

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When Was The Anatosaurus Alive and Why Did it
Become Extinct

• The Anatosaurus was alive in the late cretaceous
  time.
• It lived about 70-65 million years ago.
• It went extinct during the huge K-T mass
  extinction.
• The T.rex and the Dromaeosaurus were among its
  contemporaries, and they may have preyed upon the
  Anatosaurus.

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Where I Got My Sources

• http//www.prehistory.com
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subject/dinosaur/
  
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/