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Iguanodontia>Dryomorpha>Ankylopollexia>Hadrosauriformes>Iguanodon>I.bernissartensis
Boulenger, 1881
Time: Late Barremian (126-125 million years ago)
Length: Up to 9.5 meters (31.1ft) when fully grown.
Height: Up to 2.7 meters (8.8ft) at the hip when fully grown.
Weight: Up to 4.8 tonnes when fully grown.
Habitat: The region of Bernissart in Belgium, Europe; possibly other locations within the continent.
Ecology: Large terrestrial herbivore. Like other hadrosauriformes, Iguanodon had a keratinous beak structure for cropping twigs and leaves, and a primitive form of chewing to break it down within the mouth, and the flexible little finger could have helped gather foliage or grasp tree trunks or other objects.
Diet: Tree-level foliage, perhaps up to 4 meters off the ground. Probably ate horsetails, cycads, and conifers, as well as young angiosperm trees.
Locomotion: While initially interpreted as an obligate quadruped, then a triped and then a biped, it was most likely a facultative biped, though adults likely spent more time on all fours. Juvenile I.bernissartensis show proportionally shorter arms than adults, implying a mostly bipedal lifestyle as they were younger. The maximum speed of Iguanodon is estimated, on a bipedal gait, to be around 25 kph (15 miles per hour).
Social behavior: Although sometimes interpreted as the result of a single catastrophe, the Bernissart finds of 38 Iguanodon skeletons are now interpreted as recording multiple events. According to this interpretation, at least three occasions of mortality are recorded, and though numerous individuals would have died in a geologically short time span, this does not necessarily mean they were all in large herds/groupd during the occasion.
Potential predators: As juveniles, contemporary tyrannosauroid Eotyrannus and spinosaurid Baryonyx. Their bulk probably protected a grown adult from either of these theropods, but most adults would still be susceptible to attacks from Neovenator.
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Update 07/14/17:
-Lineart completely remade.
-Replaced human scale figure.
-More accurate size estimate, now along the centra as is the norm, instead of in a straight line.
-Updated common name (let's be honest, ''Iguanodon'' is much more memorable than ''Bernissartian Iguana Tooth'', that name was terrible)
-Minor text corrections.

Skeletal reconstruction by

Description
Iguanodontia>Dryomorpha>Ankylopollexia>Hadrosauriformes>Iguanodon>I.bernissartensis
Boulenger, 1881
Time: Late Barremian (126-125 million years ago)
Length: Up to 9.5 meters (31.1ft) when fully grown.
Height: Up to 2.7 meters (8.8ft) at the hip when fully grown.
Weight: Up to 4.8 tonnes when fully grown.
Habitat: The region of Bernissart in Belgium, Europe; possibly other locations within the continent.
Ecology: Large terrestrial herbivore. Like other hadrosauriformes, Iguanodon had a keratinous beak structure for cropping twigs and leaves, and a primitive form of chewing to break it down within the mouth, and the flexible little finger could have helped gather foliage or grasp tree trunks or other objects.
Diet: Tree-level foliage, perhaps up to 4 meters off the ground. Probably ate horsetails, cycads, and conifers, as well as young angiosperm trees.
Locomotion: While initially interpreted as an obligate quadruped, then a triped and then a biped, it was most likely a facultative biped, though adults likely spent more time on all fours. Juvenile I.bernissartensis show proportionally shorter arms than adults, implying a mostly bipedal lifestyle as they were younger. The maximum speed of Iguanodon is estimated, on a bipedal gait, to be around 25 kph (15 miles per hour).
Social behavior: Although sometimes interpreted as the result of a single catastrophe, the Bernissart finds of 38 Iguanodon skeletons are now interpreted as recording multiple events. According to this interpretation, at least three occasions of mortality are recorded, and though numerous individuals would have died in a geologically short time span, this does not necessarily mean they were all in large herds/groupd during the occasion.
Potential predators: As juveniles, contemporary tyrannosauroid Eotyrannus and spinosaurid Baryonyx. Their bulk probably protected a grown adult from either of these theropods, but most adults would still be susceptible to attacks from Neovenator.
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Update 07/14/17:
-Lineart completely remade.
-Replaced human scale figure.
-More accurate size estimate, now along the centra as is the norm, instead of in a straight line.
-Updated common name (let's be honest, ''Iguanodon'' is much more memorable than ''Bernissartian Iguana Tooth'', that name was terrible)
-Minor text corrections.

Skeletal reconstruction by