Edmontonia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Mounted skeleton of E. rugosidens, specimen AMNH 5665 | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Nodosaurinae |
Clade: | †Panoplosaurini |
Genus: | †Edmontonia Sternberg, 1928 |
Type species | |
†Edmontonia longiceps Sternberg, 1928
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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.