Aralosaurus
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Aralosaurus
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- Lived
- 86 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 8 m (26 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Kazakhstan
- Named by
- Rozhdestvensky 1968
Field notes
About Aralosaurus
Aralosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Aralosaurus, from Kazakhstan. Its fossils come from the Bostobe Formation. It was named by Rozhdestvensky in 1968.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Aralosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1968. Gadrozavry Kazakhstana [Hadrosaurs of Kazakhstan]. [Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic Amphibians and Reptiles]. Akademia Naul SSSR, Moscow