Tsintaosaurus
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Tsintaosaurus is an extinct genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about 10 m (33 ft) long and 12 ft (3,60 m) tall.
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 an unicorn-like crest on its snout, but later it was found that the 'crest' was actually a broken skull bone, indicating the specimen was actually Tanius, but a second specimen with the horn has been discovered.
The type species is T. spinorhinus, first described by C. C. Young in 1958.
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