Anatotitan Facts and Figures

Anatotitan Facts and Figures Name: Anatotitan (Greek for mammoth duck); articulated ah-NAH-toe-TIE-tan Living space: Forests of North America Recorded Period: Late Cretaceous (70-65 million years back) Size and Weight: Around 40 feet in length and 5 tons Diet: Plants Recognizing Characteristics: Huge size; wide, level bill About Anatotitan It required some investment to make sense of precisely what sort of dinosaur Anatotitan was. Since the revelation of its fossil stays in the late nineteenth century, this goliath plant-eater has been characterized in different manners, here and there passing by the now-unfashionable names Trachodon or Anatosaurus, or thought about a types of Edmontosaurus. Be that as it may, in 1990, a persuading case was introduced that Anatotitan merited its own sort in the group of huge, herbivorous dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs, a thought that has since been acknowledged by the greater part of the dinosaur network. (A more up to date study, in any case, demands that the sort example of Anatotitan was actually an obsolete example of Edmontosaurus, henceforth its incorporation in the as of now named species Edmontosaurus annectens.) As you would have speculated, Anatotitan (goliath duck) was named after its wide, level, duck-like bill. Notwithstanding, one shouldnt take this similarity excessively far: the snout of a duck is an extremely touchy organ (somewhat like human lips), yet Anatotitans bill was a hard, level mass utilized predominantly to uncover vegetation. Another odd element of Anatotitan (which it imparted to different hadrosaurs) is that this dinosaur was fit for running awkwardly on two legs when it was pursued by predators; else, it invested the vast majority of its energy in each of the four feet, chomping calmly on vegetation.