backward-curving teeth adapted to tearing flesh

with its neck accounting for a large portion of its overall size

Snout-tail length 217 mm

This dinosaur is especially notable for its unique weaponized tail

near the discovery area

Shantungosaurus giganteus Cuvieronius backward-curving teeth adapted to tearingShantungosaurus 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