Shantungosaurus

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Illustration of the Shantungosaurus, a large, flat-headed herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, shown with an elongated jaw and spotted skin, alongside a car and two people for scale. Measurement bars indicate its length of up to 49 feet (15 meters).

Shantungosaurus

dinosaur

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ornithopod
…into the hadrosaurines, such as Shantungosaurus, and the lambeosaurines, including Parasaurolophus and Lambeosaurus, which sported strange bony crests on their skulls. Hadrosaurs commonly reached lengths of 9–11 metres and were among the most abundant dinosaurs in North America by the end of the Cretaceous Period. They are known to have…
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…into the hadrosaurines, such as Shantungosaurus, and the lambeosaurines, including Parasaurolophus and Lambeosaurus, which sported strange bony crests on their skulls. Hadrosaurs commonly reached lengths of 9–11 metres and were among the most abundant dinosaurs in North America by the end of the Cretaceous Period. They are known to have…
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Anatosaurus
…forms such as Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus have been found elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.
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…forms such as Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus have been found elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.
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