Product Description
Our small plastic Iguanodon bones toy is just the right size replica for a shoebox diorama. This Iguanodon skeleton model will fit in a shoe box along with examples of skeletons of prehistoric animals you might find in a museum. Create a landscape with rocks, plants, grass, make a river or stream from anything that strikes your imagination. Have them lie in the mud and there you go - a scene of life on our planet. Our plastic toy Iguanodon skeleton is made of solid plastic and is quite durable. Be sure to take a look at our other dinosaurs as well as our section on skeletons, skulls, and and biology. We've also devoted a category in our store to prehistoric life divided into geologic time periods.
Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the early Cretaceous Period, about 135-125 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic Era. Physical description: Iguanodon's bulky body averaged about 30 feet long, 16 feet tall, 9 feet tall at the hips, and may have weighed 4-5 tons. They had toothless beaks and tightly packed cheek teeth. The upper jaw held up to 29 teeth per side, with none at the front of the jaw, and the lower jaw 25; the numbers are different because teeth in the lower jaw are broader than those in the upper. Their backbones and tails were stiff. At the end of their arms they had somewhat inflexible hands with four fingers plus a cone-shaped thumb spike. In early restorations it was believed that the spike belonged on the animal's nose. Later fossils proved that the spikes were really thumb spikes. To this day the exact function of Iguanodon's thumb spikes is debated. It's possible that the thumb spike helped them to protect themselves if attacked or to assist with breaking down vegetation.
