Jaxartosaurus
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Jaxartosaurus
DV-0161 · type species Jaxartosaurus aralensis
- Lived
- 101 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 9 m (30 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- China and Kazakhstan
- Named by
- Riabinin 1937
Field notes
About Jaxartosaurus
Jaxartosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Jaxartosaurus, from China and Kazakhstan. Its fossils come from rocks including the Dabrazhin Formation and the Ulungar Formation. It was named by Riabinin in 1937.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Jaxartosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. N. Riabinin. 1937. O nakhodke shlemonosnykh form Dinosauria verkhnemelovykh otlozheniyakh yuzhnogo Kazakhstana [The discovery of crested forms of Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs in southern Kazakhstan]. Priroda 1937(9):91