Edmontonia

A skull from one was found in the Talkeetna mountains, but I can’t find which species it belonged to

Inspired by the prince creek rp

Rules 1. No mating (implication is accepted but still weird)

2. Dont be unrealistic

Note: This story of mine is quite old, so don't judge too harshly.

Ankylosaurus magniventris

Lived: 68-66 mya, U.S.

Size: 24 feet long, weigh 4.5 tonnes, over 6 feet tall

Family: Ankylosauridae

Advantages: can break bones, is bigger

Weaknesses: slower?

Edmontonia longiceps

Lived: 76-69 mya, Canada

Size: 22 feet long, weigh 3 tonnes, 6 feet tall

Family: Nodosauridae

Advantages: low spikes that can reach ankylosaurus’ weak spots

Weaknesses: smaller, less stable

MAY THE BEST DINOSAUR WIN!

It is the Late Cretaceous period in northern USA. During a time of drought, a lone female Edmontonia lumbers through a once lush forest that was destroyed by a wildfire the day before. The Edmontonia had lost her baby in a stampeding herd of Pachyrhinosaurus during the fire. Now, she is looking for food, but few plants survived the flames. Finally, she spots a patch of vegetation unharmed by the fire. She approaches and begins feeding.

Nearby, a bad tempered Ankylosaurus wanders through the ruined trees, also looking for food. She was lucky to have survived the flames and smoke. Irritably, she growls and scares off a pair of close by dakotaraptor that were feasting on some baby edmontosaurus. Then she grunts and continues.

Soon, she spots the patch of food and moves toward it. She snorts when she sees the Edmontonia already feeding. Driven by hunger, the ankylosaur makes a couple mock charges and low bellowing sounds at the nodosaur. The Edmontonia looks up and snorts at the ankylosaurus, wishing it would leave. The ankylosaur charges and uses her horns to butt the Edmontonia in the head. The nodosaur snorts angrily and tries to impale the ankylosaurus, but the latter backs up, lashing her tail ferociously. She turns and swings her tail, driving back her rival.

The Edmontonia is beginning to get irritant as well. She bellows at the ankylosaur and paces back and forth, preparing for her larger enemy to attack. The ankylosaurus advances, swinging her tail and snorting furiously. The Edmontonia points one of her spikes at the ankylosaur and prepares to defend herself. The ankylosaurus tries to club the nodosaur with her tail, but the edmontonia dodges. The ankylosaur’s rival charges at the former’s flank. The ankylosaurus sidesteps and slams into the nodosaur, making sure to evade her spikes. The edmontonia gets shoved into a tree, and the scorched trunk breaks and collapses on the nodosaur, who throws it off herself. The brawl continues.

The two thyreophorans circle each other, each waiting for the other to strike. The ankylosaurus lashes its tail, enraged, and charges. She lashes out with her tail and hits the edmontonia’s hip. The nodosaur stumbles, and the ankylosaur takes the opportunity to get a direct hit on the edmontonia’s shoulder, cracking the latter’s shoulder plate. The edmontonia groans in pain and uses the little strength she has left to slam into the ankylosaurus’ armor with her shoulder spike, breaking off an osteoderm and damaging the layer of collagen fiber. The ankylosaurus slams against the nodosaur and swings her tail again, this time only damaging a few of the edmontonia’s osteoderms.

The edmontonia backs up, groaning in pain. The ankylosaurus sees this as a submission and begins mvoing toward the patch of vegetation. But the nodosaur is really preparing to charge. The edmontonia bellows and advances. The ankylosaurus turns to defend but it’s too late. The edmontonia severely injures the ankylosaur impaling her in the shoulder, breaking an artery. The ankylosaurus collapses as groans in pain and swings her tail, breaking another osteoderm. The nodosaur finishes the fight with a stab to stomach. The ankylosaurus convulses and goes limp, never to see the light of another day.

One hour later, the nodosaurus finishes the plants and moves on, leaving the dead body of the ankylosaurus behind to be scavenged upon by dakotaraptor. The edmontonia though has a broken leg and may not survive the drought…

Edmontonia wins: 6/10

1. Suchomimus

2. Acrocanthosaurus/Mapusaurus

3. Ichthyovenator

4. Deltadromeus (well, there’s not really any kidding)

5. Anchiceratops

6. Arrhinoceratops

7. Neovenator

8. Edmontonia

9. Rapator (I know, I know, it’s sparse af)

10. Siamraptor

11. Maip

12. Tarbosaurus/Tyrannosaurus

13. Bisticeratops

14. Alamosaurus/Ampelosaurus

15. Bistahieversor

16. Patagopelta

17. Styracosaurus

18. Rajasaurus

19. Albertosaurus

20. Allosaurus/Saurophaganax

OH GOD IT HAS EVEN MORE OSTEODERMS THAN MY EUOPLOCEPHALUS! This was a nightmare to make.

The arm proportions are inaccurate because I couldn't find a way to make them look good without changing the Edmontonia's posture (the Skeletal diagram was in a walking position instead of a standing position). The reason why I didn't want to change the Edmontonia's posture was because when you rotate something in Google Drawings, this happens:

Whenever I rotate something that will factor into the size of the hitbox of every object combined, I edit the "points" of the object because it resets the hitbox. I couldn't do that here because I'd have to edit all of the 100+ osteoderms this guy has.

Series is catching up for the days I missed. Its easier for me to remember what number we're on if its more often.

Rules: Rate this creature. About it.

Billings Productions Edmontonia

Pronounced: ed-mon-tone-ee-ah

Means: From Edmonton (Canada)

Where: North America (Alberta, Texas)

When: Late Cretaceous

Diet: Herbivorous

Size of Adult: 20-23 ft (6-7 m) long

Size of Animatronic Model: L 23 ft 2 in (7.07 m), H 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m)*

* includes height of steel base

A duo of Aletopelta

A duo of unusually large, strong, and healthy subadult Edmontonia

A single Anodontosaurus

12 Stegouros

A single Peloroplites

First of all, the dinosaurs don't talk in MoTD unlike in WWD

Second, let's look at the models:

The rosters:

March of the Dinosaurs:

WWD:

Model comparison:

Pachyrhinosaurus

WWD:

MoTD:

Troodon

WWD:

MoTD:

Edmontonia:

WWD:

MoTD:

Alphadon:

WWD:

MoTD:

Quetzalcoatlus

WWD:

MoTD:

Gorgosaurus

WWD:

MoTD:

Edmontosaurus

WWD:

MoTD:

The models in WWD look great and all and I kinda like them better than MoTD, but still, the models still hold up in MoTD

Finally, the story is more accurate in March of the Dinosaurs than in Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, technically a dinosaur version of the Serengeti wildebeest and zebra migration. Walking with Dinosaurs is more cartoony, but honestly, I'm OK with that

So which one do you like better?