Dinosaurs In Literature, History and Art: Shang Dynasty, Jade Dinosaur .. Page 44

This objet d'art is posted for sale on the internet. The text below is a verbatim quote from the site. It is the opinion of the sellers of this ancient Shang Dynasty object that it is a representation of a dinosaur.

Ironically, we don't neccessarily agree that it looks a great deal like a tyrranosaur, which is their surmise. They do have the benefit of having multiple views of the object.

Besides the tyrannosaur, we present the skull of the charonosaurus, a recent Chinese find which appears to have a similar skull shape and backwards pointed horn. Still, we admit that our speculations couldn't possibly be less scientific. We leave it up to you to decide what it might be.

Price: $100,000 Shang Dynasty, Jade dinosaur H. 39cm, W. 14kgs Some believes the mythical Chinese dragon may be the dinosaur in the Gretaceous Period. The Chinese character of Dragon has been formed by the pattern derivation which must base some thing in the real world. If this is true, then the ancient Chinese must see the live dinosaur to compose the dragon character. The shape of ancient character of dragon looks like the shape of dinosaur. Tyrannosaurus is the major dinosaur family of the Gretaceous period. Tyrannosaurus was one of the largest terrestrial carnivores of all time. It stood approximately 15 feet high and was about 40 feet in length, roughly six tons in weight. In its large mouth were six-inch long, sharp, serrated teeth. The artifact has the simplified design of tyrannosaurus with only two legs. The typical relief auspicious cloud lines in the Shang dynasty. It is made of white color nephrite with phenomena of differential weathering, cleaving veins and earth penetration. http://www.palaceantique.com/ Contact Adviser: Dr. Eugene Huang PhD, Cornell University Associate Researcher, Institute of Earth Sciences, Acadamia Sinica Curator: Chen Ming Chieh (Mitchell Chen) M.S. in Economics(1970), National Taiwan University Visiting Scholar(1974), Carnegie-Mellon University M.S. (1975) in Engineering , Standord University Associate Professor, DBA, Jen Wen Institute of Technology Lecturer in Jade Artifacts Indentification, Hsien-Tien Community College Click and Drag Photo to resize. .

Charonosaurus (skull above)is a very large lambeosaurine hadrosaur (estimated around 10.8 m (36 ft) long), known from a partial skull (Holotype: CUST J-V1251-57 (Changchun University of Sciences and Technology, Changchun, Jilin Province, China)) found in the Late Maastrichtian Yuliangze Formation, west of Jiayin village, Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China.

Adult and juvenile hadrosaur remains discovered in the same area and formation likely represent the same taxon and supply information on most of the postcranial skeleton; the femur length was up to 1.35 m. (4.5 ft).

The partial skull resembles that of Parasaurolophus and probably had a similar long, backward-projecting hollow crest, indicated by the highly modified dorsal surface of the frontal bones.

Charonosaurus is one of the largest hadrosaurs currently known from Asia and indicates that lambeosaurines survived till the very end of the Cretaceous (lambeosaurines are not known from the Late Maastrichtian in North America).....wikipedia.org

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