Early Cretaceous Lakota Formation

It is from Western North America located in South Dakota. The northern boreal zone is the where the iguanodonts are developing into hadrosaurs. Iguanodonts are among the best known of the dinosaurs, and were among the most diverse and widespread herbivorous dinosaur groups of the Cretaceous period

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Raptors are the Kaiyodo JP Pepsi premiums from Japan. Center top is the National Geographic Micro Deinonychus . Center is the black and gold Schleich Iguanodon. The rest are Disney Iguanodons from several different series.

The large raptors Deinonychus 7 - 13 feet long and Utahraptor  22 feet long show up in the North America in the Early Cretaceous.  Both are more like the Jurassic Park raptor than the actual Velociraptor from Mongolia.

 

Salvat Iguanodon

Iguanodonts are a group of herbivorous dinosaur leading up to the duck-billed dinosaur. The only well-accepted North American species is Dakotadon a genus of iguanodont dinosaur. It was described from a partial skull from South Dakota. once assigned to Iguanodon as I. lakotaensis.

 

 

Toyway WWD Iguanodon. Custom McDonalds Disney Animal World Iguanodon. by Stephen Robertson who did a great job matching the colors to the Toyway figures.

There are fossils that may record mortality of herding animals migrating through rivers. There is a span of individual ages among the fossils that looks like a herd.

CollectA Iguanodon Basal, or non-hadrosaurid, members of Iguanodontia are among the most widespread, diverse, and numerous dinosaurs in Early Cretaceous terrestrial deposits. Camptosaurus depressus and Dakotadon lakotaensis , Tenontosaurus, Hippodraco and Iguanacolossus basal iguanodonts from the Barremian–Aptian of western North America are more basal than contemporaneous taxa from Europe and Asia. Basal iguanodontian dinosaurs were extremely successful animals, found in great abundance and diversity almost worldwide during the Early Cretaceous.