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Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Tsintaosaurus
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus (Tsintaosaurus · Tsintaosaurus)
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 about 12 m (representative value for the genus) is similar to a city bus of around 12 m (Comparison).
- 💡 A length of 12 m is more than two and a half passenger cars (about 4.5 m each) placed end to end (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
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus (genus Tsintaosaurus) was a large herbivorous duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaurid) that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Skulls and a partial skeleton are known. Its body length listed in the guide is about 12 m (representative value for the genus, estimated).
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The Natural History Museum, London guide introduces it as herbivorous and notes that its fossils were found in China.
🇰🇷 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 — Q124605060
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Tsintaosaurus nasal.png
- • nhm.ac.uk — tsintaosaurus.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.