Dinosaurs · Armoured dinosaur

Edmontonia

Say it ed-mon-TONE-ee-ah. The name means ‘of Edmonton’.

Edmontonia beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of armoured dinosaurs

Length: 4 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Cretaceous76 to 74 million years ago
Fossils found in: Canada
Named by: Sternberg (1928)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Thyreophora › Ankylosauria › Nodosauridae

Where Edmontonia sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Armoured dinosaurs. Plated and armoured plant-eaters, such as Stegosaurus and the ankylosaurs. See all 33

Lived at the same time

Albertosaurus · same country
Centrosaurus · same country
Chasmosaurus · same country
Chirostenotes · same country
Corythosaurus · same country
Daspletosaurus · same country
Dromaeosaurus · same country
Edmontosaurus · same country

Other armoured dinosaurs

Euoplocephalus Late Cretaceous
Tarchia Late Cretaceous
Panoplosaurus Late Cretaceous
Saichania Late Cretaceous
Pinacosaurus Late Cretaceous
Struthiosaurus Late Cretaceous
Ankylosaurus Late Cretaceous
Talarurus Late Cretaceous

Source: Edmontonia in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.