Tsintaosaurus
Field photograph to come
Tsintaosaurus
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 12 m (39 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Young 1958
Field notes
About Tsintaosaurus
Tsintaosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 4 finds of Tsintaosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Jingangkou Formation. It was named by Young in 1958.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Tsintaosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C.-C. Young. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 42(16):1-138