Shantungosaurus giganteus mesozoico asestando un golpe mortal

asestando un golpe mortal

con garras curvas en los pies que probablemente utilizaba para capturar presas pequeñas

positioning itself evolutionarily between more primitive tyrannosaurids like Daspletosaurus and later giants like Tyrannosaurus rex

Fossil remains of this species have been found in Siberia

Their exact size and morphology vary between species

Shantungosaurus giganteus mesozoico asestando un golpe mortalShantungosaurus 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