Osteological Re-Assessment and Taxonomic Revision of "Tanius laiyangensis" (Ornithischia: Hadrosauroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Granskad: 2026-09-05
VERIFY:period_start_mya: stored=83.6 suggested=73.5 confidence=medium — The stored start date corresponds to the base of the Campanian (83.6 Ma), but Tsintaosaurus comes only from the Jingangkou Formation of the Wangshi Group, whose top is dated at roughly 73.5 Ma with an ~73 Ma 40Ar-39Ar basalt age, indicating a late Campanian to early Maastrichtian interval rather than the full Campanian. Extending the range back to 83.6 Ma overstates the taxon's occurrence by about ten million years.
Öppna källa ↗The 'Unicorn' Dinosaur That Wasn't: A New Reconstruction of the Crest of Tsintaosaurus and the Early Evolution of the Lambeosaurine Crest and Rostrum
PLOS ONE
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Peer-reviewed cladistic analysis (DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0082268) that recovers Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus as a basal lambeosaurine hadrosaurid within Hadrosauroidea, Iguanodontia, Ornithopoda.
Öppna källa ↗A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Provides the locality map and stratigraphic column for the Laiyang dinosaur localities, including the type locality of Tsintaosaurus in the Jingangkou Formation, Wangshi Group, Shandong Province.
Öppna källa ↗Reassessment of coelurosaurian (Dinosauria, Theropoda) remains from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong Province, China
Cretaceous Research (Elsevier)
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Documents the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong — the terrestrial floodplain/alluvial depositional setting and contemporaneous dinosaur fauna in which Tsintaosaurus lived.
Öppna källa ↗PBDB Taxon: Tsintaosaurus
Paleobiology Database
Granskad: 2026-09-05
The Paleobiology Database taxon record for Tsintaosaurus lists its ecological attributes, including a herbivorous (plant-eating) diet and terrestrial habit.
Öppna källa ↗Detrital zircon dating and tracing the provenance of dinosaur bone beds from the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong, East China
Journal of Palaeogeography (Elsevier / ScienceDirect)
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Öppna källa ↗The 'Unicorn' dinosaur that wasn't: a new reconstruction of the crest of Tsintaosaurus and the early evolution of the lambeosaurine crest and rostrum
PubMed / U.S. National Library of Medicine
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Authoritative peer-reviewed overview of the anatomy of Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, re-describing its skull, the famous spike-like nasal crest and its evolutionary significance.
Öppna källa ↗The 'Unicorn' dinosaur that wasn't: a new reconstruction of the crest of Tsintaosaurus and the early evolution of the lambeosaurine crest and rostrum
PubMed / U.S. National Library of Medicine
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Authoritative peer-reviewed overview of the anatomy of Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, re-describing its skull, the famous spike-like nasal crest and its evolutionary significance.
Öppna källa ↗The 'Unicorn' dinosaur that wasn't: a new reconstruction of the crest of Tsintaosaurus and the early evolution of the lambeosaurine crest and rostrum
PubMed / U.S. National Library of Medicine
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Authoritative peer-reviewed overview of the anatomy of Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, re-describing its skull, the famous spike-like nasal crest and its evolutionary significance.
Öppna källa ↗The 'Unicorn' dinosaur that wasn't: a new reconstruction of the crest of Tsintaosaurus and the early evolution of the lambeosaurine crest and rostrum
PubMed / U.S. National Library of Medicine
Granskad: 2026-09-05
Authoritative peer-reviewed overview of the anatomy of Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, re-describing its skull, the famous spike-like nasal crest and its evolutionary significance.
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