Types of Dinosaurs

Names of Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Information
Dinosaur Name:

Hadrosaurus

- Pronunciation: HAD-ruh-SAWR-us
- Translation: Sturdy Lizard
- Order: Ornithischia
- Suborder: Ornithopoda
- Infraorder: Iguanodontia
- Family: Hadrosauridae
- Height: 15 feet (4.6 meters)
- Weight: 6,000 pounds (2,722 kg)
- Length: 28 feet (8.5 meters)
- Period: Late Cretaceous
- Description: Herbivore, Bipedal
- Notes: Hadrosaurus was the first dinosaur known from a nearlycomplete skeleton. Its beak-shaped snout had no teeth; however,it had batteries of plant-grinding teeth in its jaws.