Anatotitan or Edmontosaurus coloring pages

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Today's new drawing is of a duckbill dinosaur named Anatotitan.

Anatotitan and Pternodon

(New drawing) 

Anatotitan is the name given to a very large duck-billed dinosaur or Hadrosaur from the very end of the Late Cretaceous Period.  It lived in North America.  It was at least 39 feet long and maybe up to 49 feet long.  That would be 12 and 15 meters.  

New research by two Paleontologists (Campione and Evans) suggests that Anatotitan was just a fully grown species of Edmontosaurus.  It would have been a prey species for the huge predatory Theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.  Anatotitan... or Edmontosaurus was a Hadrosaur with a flat head and the classic duck-like mouth... hence the name duck-billed dinosaur.  

Below is a drawing of Edmontosaurus from a previous post.  It includes a closer view of Pteranodon. 

Pteranodon was a genus of fairly common toothless Pterosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period.  It had a wingspan of up to 23 feet or 7 meters.  It ate fish.  Pteranoson fossils have been found in several Western states of North America.  

Edmontosaurus and Pteranodon

(Older drawing)

Edmontosaurus vs T. rex size comparison

This older drawing shows that T. rex was huge but Edmontosaurus which was possibly also Anatotitan, was even longer than Tyrannosaurus rex.  There is some evidence that Anatotitan / Edmontosaurus had a less flat snout than previously thouight.  

(Older drawing) 

NOTE:  These drawings can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the "Paleontology" button up at the top of this page.  Then scroll down to the bottom to get to the new drawing.  The older drawings will be further up the list.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the printables lists.