🎨 RestorationRestoration: Nobu Tamura · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Shantungosaurus
Shantungosaurus giganteus (Shantungosaurus · Shantungosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its estimated body length of 15 m is slightly longer than a London double-decker bus (about 14 m) (Comparison).
- 💡 Its estimated body length of 15 m is about 60% of the length of a 25 m swimming pool (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
Shantungosaurus giganteus (genus Shantungosaurus) was a large duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaurid) that lived in the Shandong region of China about 78–74 million years ago, and its name means 'Shandong lizard.'
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It was a hadrosaurid dinosaur belonging to the large ornithopods.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
It ate plants. Hu named the genus in 1973, with giganteus as the type species.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20719295
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Laika ac Dino Kingdom 2012 (7882291466).jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — shantungosaurus.html
- • nhm.ac.uk — how-big-was-diplodocus-carnegii.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Will Toosey · CC BY 4.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Hadrosaurus foulkii)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.