Bactrosaurus
Field photograph to come
Bactrosaurus
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- Lived
- 101 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 6 m (20 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia
- Named by
- Gilmore 1933
Field notes
About Bactrosaurus
Bactrosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 7 finds of Bactrosaurus, from China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Its fossils come from rocks including the Iren Dabasu Formation, the Baynshire Formation and the Dabrazhin Formation. It was named by Gilmore in 1933.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Bactrosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. W. Gilmore. 1933. On the dinosaurian fauna of the Iren Dabasu Formation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 68(2-3):23-78