Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a
genus of saurolophine
hadrosaurid dinosaurs found in the Late
Cretaceous Wangshi Group of the
Shandong Peninsula in
China. The stratigraphic interval of
Shantungosaurus ranges from the top of the Xingezhuang Formation to the middle of the Hongtuya Formation, middle to late
Campanian in age.
Shantungosaurus is so far the largest hadrosauroid taxon in the world: the greatest length of its femur is about 1.7 m, and the greatest length of its humerus is about 0.97 m.