The first quality specimen, the former holotype of Anatosaurus copei (Anatotitan), was a complete skull and most of a skeleton collected in 1882 by Dr. J. L. Wortman and R. S. Hill [11] for American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope.

Oct 7, 2011 · In a new paper published in PLoS One, paleontologists Nicolás Campione and David Evans have proposed that the immense, Late Cretaceous hadrosaur Anatotitan was actually just the fully mature...

Their study provided further evidence that Anatotitan copei is a synonym of E. annectens. Specifically, the long, low skull of A. copei is the result of ontogenetic change and represents mature E. annectens individuals.

A compilation of the best Anatotitan illustrations, facts, fossils, and maps. See how it lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.

Jun 8, 2011 · Due to the extreme similarity between Edmontosaurus and Anatotitan, today Anatotitan is considered to be Edmontosaurus. Brett-Surman’s (1979) analysis of the two animal’s skulls are not reliable because Anatotitan’s skull was crushed and distorted.

Anatotitan copei Lull & Wright, 1942 era un dinosauro erbivoro appartenente agli Hadrosauridae, o dinosauri a becco d'anatra. Visse nel Cretaceo superiore ( Maastrichtiano , tra 70 e 65 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Nordamerica .

Feb 11, 2023 · Anatotitan is a kind of duck-billed and flat-headed dinosaurs that lived Late Cretaceous, 68-66 million years ago

Anatotitan copei (Lull & Wright, 1942) Edmontosaurus annectens (Marsh, 1892) See more items in Paleogeneral Reptiles/Amphibians Reptilia Dinosauria Ornithopoda Paleobiology Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Sauropsida Reptilia Archosauria Dinosauria Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Hadrosaurinae

Anatotitan (meaning "large duck") is a genus of flat-headed or hadrosaurine hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur (a "duck-billed dinosaur") from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America.

Dinosaur Anatotitan copei: scientific and paleontological classification, description, dimensions, length, weight, speed, temporal range, species, fossils, references