ANYLOSAURUS - NODOSAURIDAE - STRUCTHIOSAURUS

A 3m (10ft) long four-footed herbivore (75 million years ago) from the Campanian Upper Cretaceous Stage: the dinosaur was discovered in grey marl corresponding to the bottom of a lake dating from the Upper Cretaceous. Its skeleton was found on a bed of plants, surrounded by various species of tortoise, crocodile and fish. The plentiful remains enabled the dinosaur to be reconstituted in full together with its skin of shield-like plates and the large spines on its back.