Shantungosaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Shantungosaurus 17 m (56 ft) long
as long as 10 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 17 m (56 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (77.3–71 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.
Shantungosaurus () is an extinct genus of very large herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group of the Shandong Peninsula in China, containing a single species, Shantungosaurus giganteus. The stratigraphic interval of Shantungosaurus ranges from the top of the Xingezhuang Formation to the middle of the Hongtuya Formation, middle to late Campanian in age. Shantungosaurus is so far the largest hadrosauroid taxon in the world, with size estimates around 15 – 17 m in length and 13 – 16 MT in body mass.
What we know
- Named by Hu, 1973.
- Body length estimated at about 17 m.
- Fossils found in North America and Asia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Shantungosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.