Wikijunior:Dinosaurs/Tenontosaurus
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Tenontosaurus was an iguanodont dinosaur, similar to Iguanodon.
What did they look like?
[edit | edit source]They were large quadruped hadrosaurs. They had front legs similar to a horse's and had very long, rigid, straight tails.
What did they eat?
[edit | edit source]They ate plants and shrubs.
When did they live?
[edit | edit source]They lived long before the time of the K-T extinction, during the early Cretaceous time period of the Mesozoic. This was about 115–108 million years ago.
Where did they live?
[edit | edit source]They lived in the floodplains and forests in what is now the following areas: Montana, Wyoming, and Texas.
How were they discovered?
[edit | edit source]Tenontosaurus were discovered an American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) expedition in 1903. They were named by a man named Lawrence Barnum Brown
What do we need to learn?
[edit | edit source]- Where they actually lived
- Their speed
- Were they really common prey for Deinonychus or not