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Tsintaosaurus meaning "Qingdao lizard" is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. 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 lived in Southeast Asia in the Late Cretaceous. It was a type of Duckbill Dinosaur.

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Size = 33 ft (10 m) long

Order = Ornithischia

Family = Hadrosauridae

Range: Southeast China

Pn: SIN-tow-SAW-rus

Diet: Herbivorous

Crest

Tsintaosaurus is typically reconstructed with a unicorn-like crest on its skull. In the 1990s, some studies cast doubt on the presence of the crest, suggesting that the 'crest' was actually a broken bone from the top of the snout distorted upward by crushing. The study further suggested that, without the distinctive crest to distinguish it, Tsintaosaurus was actually a synonym of the similar but crestless hadrosaur Tanius. However, a second specimen with the same upright crest has since been discovered, showing that the crest was indeed real and Tsintaosaurus is likely a distinct genus.

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