Tsintaosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Tsintaosaurus"

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image_caption = "Tsintaosaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Ornithopoda
infraordo = Iguanodontia
superfamilia = Hadrosauroidea
familia = Hadrosauridae
subfamilia = Lambeosaurinae
genus = "Tsintaosaurus"
genus_authority = Young, 1958
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"T. spinorhinus" Young, 1958 (type)

"Tsintaosaurus" is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about 10 meters (33 ft) long, 3.6 m (12 ft) tall and weighed 3 tons. [http://www.dinosaur-world.com/weird_dinosaurs/tsintaosaurus_spinorhinus.htm Weird Dinosaurs] ] The type species is "T. spinorhinus", first described by C. C. Young in 1958. A hadrosaur, "Tsintaosaurus" had a characteristic 'duck bill' snout and a battery of powerful teeth which it used to chew vegetation. It usually walked on all fours, but could rear up on its hind legs to scout for predators and flee when it spotted one. Like other hadrosaurs, "Tsintaosaurus" probably lived in herds.

"Tsintaosaurus" was initially reconstructed with a unicorn-like crest on its snout. Although the 'crest' was later identified as a broken skull bone—indicating the specimen was actually "Tanius"—a second specimen with the horn has since been discovered.Buffetaut, E. and Tong, H. (1993). "Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus" Young and "Tanius sinensis" Wiman: a preliminary comparative study of two hadrosaurs (Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of China." "C.R. Academy of Science Paris", series 2. 317:1255-1261.]

References

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7a8c6.htm "Tsintaosaurus" in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia] at DinoRuss' Lair