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Iguanodon (meaning "iguana tooth") is an extinct genus of ornithopod iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in Europe during the Early Cretaceous period. It is currently assumed to stand on its hindlimbs, and yet normally walk on all fours. If attacked, it could dissuade a predator with its powerful thumb spike.[1]

Iguanodon was the second dinosaur ever discovered, and this allowed scientists who had never seen a complete dinosaur, to figure out what it would have looked like in life. In fact, the first time this common dinosaur was found as just a partial skeleton, scientists put its thumb spike on its nose thinking it was a horn.

This was only the second dinosaur to be described, after Megalosaurus. Its teeth were discovered in the early 1820s in England - these original fossils were "rediscovered" in the British Museum in 1977. As nothing like it had ever been described in scientific literature, the teeth of this creature were a puzzle that an amateur paleontologist named Gideon Mantell solved by comparing them to the teeth of living animals. Mantell found that the teeth looked like those of a modern iguana and named it Iguanodon. He speculated that it was a huge extinct version of this modern reptile. It was in 1878 in a coal mine in Belgium that 24 fairly complete and articulated specimens were found. Although they were of a larger species, they clearly showed what this creature looked like in life.[2]


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Jurassic Park Franchise[]

Iguanodon appeared in the website Jurassic Park Institute on Dinopedia.

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During a flashback of the Cretaceous, an Iguanodon was grazing before being disturbed and scared off by a Giganotosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus. They appear to be a relatively solitary creature (the largest herd consists of four) similar to how the Jurassic Franchise portrayed its relative Ouranosaurus.

Jurassic World: Dominion[]

Iguanodon appear in Jurassic World: Dominion where it is created by Biosyn sometime prior to 2022. They are first seen drinking in a river with Parasaurolophus and Triceratops before being scared by burning Giant Locusts. Eventually, the dinosaurs can be seen escaping the forest fire in the movie’s climax. An Iguanodon was seen grazing nearby a Dreadnoughtus and a flying Pteranodon, only to run from an approaching Rexy and Giganotosaurus. It can be assumed that Biosyn’s Iguanodon now resides in the wild or they might be continuing their lives in the abandoned sanctuary which is now a global reserve.

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  • In Malaya Scotch Marmo’s draft for the original film, Hammond, (in an effort to persuade Grant from leaving) that he was hatching iguanodons the following Tuesday.
  • Iguanodon was planned to be in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom but Colin Trevorrow confirmed there are no plans for it to be added in the final cut.
  • It can be noted that the Iguanodon’s color scheme resembles that of its Walking With Dinosaurs counterpart; brown with white stripes. Most fans say they resemble one of the early animated models from Disney’s Dinosaur that were tested in March & October of 1996.

References[]

  1. Jurassic Park DNA, TM & (c) 1994 CIC Video International. All text approved by Dr. Angela Milner, The National History Museum, London.
  2. Dinopedia on the JPI site

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