Outline: a typical ornithopod
Aralosaurus
"Aral lizard"
- 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
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical ornithopod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Aralosaurus
What it was like
Aralosaurus was a duck-billed plant eater about 8 meters (26 feet) long. It is known from the back half of a skull and a few other bones. A bony bump rose on its snout, and later studies place it among the crested duckbills.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Kazakhstan. Its bones come from the Bostobe Formation, where the plant eater Batyrosaurus also lived.
How it was found
Rozhdestvensky named Aralosaurus in 1968 from one find. It is named after a large inland lake near where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1968. Gadrozavry Kazakhstana [Hadrosaurs of Kazakhstan]. [Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic Amphibians and Reptiles]. Akademia Naul SSSR, Moscow