Aralosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0198Bostobe Fm., Kazakhstan

Aralosaurus

DV-0198

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

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Aralosaurus?

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Aralosaurus: about 8 m (26 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical ornithopod shape

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