Length 147 mm

near the discovery area

backward-curving teeth adapted to tearing flesh

This dinosaur is especially notable for its unique weaponized tail

Shantungosaurus giganteus Cuvieronius Length 147 mmShantungosaurus giganteus was a gigantic hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is known primarily from fossil remains recovered in Shandong Province, particularly from the Zhucheng area, one of the most important fossil regions in East Asia for dinosaurs from the end of the Mesozoic. Originally described by Hu in 1973, this taxon represents one of the largest hadrosaurids known and probably one of the largest