Shantungosaurus

† Shantungosaurus is the largest known hadrosaur, a Late Cretaceous saurolophine from Shandong Province, China. This enormous flat-headed hadrosaurid may have exceeded 15 meters in length, rivaling large sauropods in mass among ornithopod dinosaurs.

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Shantungosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Late Mesozoic Era

Shantungosaurus lived during the Cretaceous Late period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 100,5 to 66,0 million years ago.

The final age of dinosaurs, featuring iconic species like Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and Velociraptor. Dinosaurs reached their peak diversity before the catastrophic asteroid impact at the Chicxulub crater ended the Mesozoic Era.