Shantungosaurus giganteus Variante:Pintado a mano Wingspan 525 mm

Wingspan 525 mm

felids and mustelids

in reference to the spines that covered its body

with three fingers ending in sharp claws

Shantungosaurus giganteus Variante:Pintado a mano Wingspan 525 mmShantungosaurus giganteus was a gigantic hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is known primarily from fossil remains recovered in Shandong Province, particularly from the Zhucheng area, one of the most important fossil regions in East Asia for dinosaurs from the end of the Mesozoic. Originally described by Hu in 1973, this taxon represents one of the largest hadrosaurids known and probably one of the largest