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Iguanodont

Iguanodont \I*gua"no*dont\, a. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to the genus Iguanodon.

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iguanodont

a. (context paleontology English) Like or relating to the genus ''Iguanodon''. n. (context paleontology English) Any member of the genus ''Iguanodon''.

Usage examples of "iguanodont".

We saw nothing to speak of on the next leg, save a glimpse of a gorgosaur out of range and some tracks indicating a whopping big iguanodont, twenty-five or thirty feet high.

The Ornithopoda consist of the heterodontosaurs, hypsilophodonts, iguanodonts, and hadrosaurs.

Numerous remains of Jurassic iguanodonts are known from America, Europe, and Africa.

The intensive development of hadrosaurs, replacing the then extinct iguanodonts, the ankylosaurs replacing stegosaurs, and a widespread expansion of horned dinosaurs are just a few examples of the flourishing fauna of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.

The hypsilophodonts, it is generally believed, led to the more advanced iguanodonts and hadrosaurs.

Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America, which was more closely related to the iguanodonts and hadrosaurs than to the hypsilophodonts.

In the Late Cretaceous the iguanodonts appear to have retreated to a few island archipelagoes in watery Europe, such as Transylvania, where some runty and primitive-looking browsers have been found.

To the east, the land slopes up to a plateau, good for ceratopsians, while to the south is flat country with more sauropod swamps and lots of ornithopod: duckbill and iguanodont.