Dinosaur
Shantungosaurus
One known skull is about 1.63 meters long.
Shantungosaurus shows how big duck-billed dinosaurs could get.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Shantungosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Hadrosauridae
- Hadrosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Shandong
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Shantungosaurus
It was a huge herbivorous hadrosaurid. It is among the largest known duck-billed dinosaurs and its remains come from several units of the Wangshi Group.
One of its known skulls measures about 1.63 meters long. The head helps convey its scale, although reconstructing the whole body requires comparing it with the other bones.
Hadrosaurids had dental batteries for processing vegetation. Some had hollow crests and others lacked them: “duck-billed” does not mean they were ducks or that they all ate the same foods.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
One of its known skulls measures about 1.63 meters long. The head helps convey its scale, although reconstructing the whole body requires comparing it with the other bones.
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- Shantungosaurus giganteus
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- Shantungosaurus
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- Hadrosauridae
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- Living birds
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