Outline: a typical ornithopod
Amurosaurus
"Amur lizard"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- China and Russia
- Named by
- Bolotsky and Kurzanov 1991
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Amurosaurus
What it was like
Amurosaurus was a lambeosaurine duckbill, a plant eater with a hollow head crest. Most of its skull is known from separate bones, so the exact shape of the crest is uncertain.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous, in what is now Russia, near its border with China. It shared that land with the crested duckbills Olorotitan and Charonosaurus and the flat-headed Kerberosaurus.
How it was found
Bolotsky and Kurzanov named Amurosaurus in 1991. Most of its fossils come from a single bone bed packed with many animals.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: Y. L. Bolotsky and S. M. Kurzanov. 1991. Gadrosavry Priamuriy [The hadrosaurs of the pre-Amur Region]. Geology of the Pacific Ocean Border