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Shantungosaurus

Shantungo-saurus

Pronunciation:: shan-TUN-go-sore-us
Name meaning:: 'Shantung (=Shandong) lizard'

Shantungosaurus

large ornithopod silhouette

Type of dinosaur:: large ornithopod
Length:: 15.0m

Diet:: herbivorous
When it lived:: Late Cretaceous, 78-74 million years ago
Found in:: China

Shantungosaurus milieu

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
Named by:: Hu (1973)
Type species:: giganteus

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