Shantungosaurus giganteus Variante:Pintado a mano and its existence has been

and its existence has been fundamental to understanding the transition from the terrestrial ancestors of whales to their current marine forms

The combination of a highly elongated snout

Height 62 mm

It had an elongated snout with teeth adapted for chewing soft vegetation

with three fingers ending in sharp claws

Shantungosaurus giganteus Variante:Pintado a mano and its existence has beenShantungosaurus 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