Probactrosaurus

DV-0195

Lived: 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Length: about 6 m (20 ft)
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: China
Named by: Rozhdestvensky 1966

Field notes

About Probactrosaurus

Probactrosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 101 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Probactrosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Miaogou Formation. It was named by Rozhdestvensky in 1966.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

110 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Probactrosaurus?

Probactrosaurus: about 6 m (20 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical ornithopod shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1966. Novye igyanodonti ie tsentrallinoy Asii. Phillogeneticheskye y taksonomicheskye veaimoothoshenia poednich Iguanodontidae y rannich Hadrosauridae [New iguanodonts from central Asia. Phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships of late Iguanodontidae and early Hadrosauridae]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1966(3):103-116