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beaked plant-eater
Tsintaosaurus
Say it like this: “CHING-DOW-SAWR-us”
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus
Tsintaosaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1958 · Young, C. C.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 8.3 m · 27 ft
- Weight
- 2.5 tonnes
- Found in
- China · Jingangkou
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Tsintaosaurus was formally named in 1958 by C. C. Young. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Jingangkou Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Tsintaosaurus at a length near 8.3 m and a body mass around 2.5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.