Re: hadrosaur

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:56:59 +0200
> From: bert.dol@philips.com
> 
> A little question: I was watching 'When dinosaurs roamed'. They
> quoted a hadrosaur being 30 meters long (I believe it was
> Edmontosaurus). Is this correct or a case of bad translation?

Bad translation.  I think they confused their meters and feet!
Figures for _Edmontosaurus_ are usually in the range of 12m or about
forty feet.

> What is the largest hadrosaur known at the moment?

I believe that's _Shantungosaurus_, topping out at maybe 15m (50
feet).  Refs:

        Hu, C. (1973). [A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of
        Chucheng. Shantung].  Acta Geol. Sinica 2:179-202. (In Chinese
        with English summary)

        HU, C. and CHENG, Z. (1986). Supplemental Notes on Research
        and its Development of Shantungosaurus giganteus. Bulletin
        Chin. Academy of Science, 14:163-170 (in Chinese).

        HU, C. and CHENG, Z. (1988). Shantungosaurus giganteus. China
        Academy of Geol. Science and Shantungosaurus Pavilion
        Committee, Gifu, Japan, Pp.1-88.

Also this one, which might be pretty much a translation of the 1986
paper already mentioned:

        Hu Chengzhi, & Cheng Zhengwu, 1986. New developments in the
        continuing research on Shantungosaurus giganteus. Bulletin of
        the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala. New
        Series. [Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis] 14, i.

I can't find on-line copies of any of these -- I guess they're too old
-- but the last reference I found is to a book that most of us
probably already have, and maybe the most helpful in terms of context:

        Weishampel, David B., & John R. Horner, 1990.  Hadrosauridae.
        Pp. 534-561 i David B. Weishampel, et al. (eds.), The
        Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los
        Angeles, Oxford.

See http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/paleo/bib/hadrobib.htm for a useful
hadrosaur bibliography compiled by M. K. Brett-Surman.

Hope this helps.

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