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Tsintaosaurus
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Tsintaosaurus is known from skulls and a partial skeleton.
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- Pronounced
- ching-dow-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Qingdao lizard
- Length
- 12m - 18m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(84 - 71 million years ago) - Found in
- Peoples Republic of China
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Euornithopoda, Iguanadontia, Euiguanadontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Iguanodontoidea, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Lambeosaurinae, Tsintaosaurus
- Named by
- Young (1958)
- Type species
- spinorhinus