Edmontonia

"of Edmonton"

• Edmonton · English (place name) · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• -ia · Latin · suffix meaning 'pertaining to' or 'place of'

Edmontonia is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation) in Alberta, Canada, where the first fossils were found; the formation in turn was named for the nearby city of Edmonton. It was a heavily armoured nodosaurid ankylosaur that had large shoulder spikes and no tail club.

Named by

Sternberg

Year named

1928

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Campanian – Maastrichtian

Found in

Alberta, Canada (Horseshoe Canyon and Dinosaur Park Formations); also Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas and New Mexico, USA

A nodosaurid ankylosaur. Type species is Edmontonia longiceps. Formerly some material was placed in Palaeoscincus; E. rugosidens is the other well-known species. Exact stage range and some locality details may vary by source.