- · Grid units represent actual meters (m); human and animals are drawn to the exact same scale with original silhouette aspect ratios preserved.
- · When a size range is recorded (e.g. 1–1.6m), the lower bound is used for scale comparison.
- · Edmontonia silhouette: PhyloPic — Marie Aimée ALLARD · CC0 1.0 (Borealopelta markmitchelli)
- · Human silhouette: PhyloPic — NASA · Public Domain Mark 1.0
Edmontonia
Edmontonia longiceps (Edmontonia · Edmontonia)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 An estimated body length of about 4 m (representative value for the genus) is slightly shorter than a single passenger car (about 4.5 m) (Comparison).
- 💡 A length of 4 m is about one and a half table tennis tables (2.74 m long) (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
Edmontonia longiceps (genus Edmontonia) was a herbivorous armored dinosaur that lived in what is now Canada during the Late Cretaceous.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its body length listed in the Natural History Museum in London guide is about 4 m (representative value for the genus, estimated).
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The guide introduces it as herbivorous and notes that its fossils were found in Canada.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q60824982
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Edmontonia half.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — edmontonia.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Marie Aimée ALLARD · CC0 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Borealopelta markmitchelli)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.