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beaked plant-eater
Aralosaurus
Say it like this: “AR-a-lo-SAWR-us”
Aralosaurus tuberiferus
Aralosaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Kazakhstan.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1968 · Rozhdestvensky, A. K.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 8 m · 26 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Kazakhstan · Bostobe
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 1968, A. K. Rozhdestvensky published the name Aralosaurus. The name means “aral Sea lizard.”
Fossils referred to Aralosaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian), roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Kazakhstan, including the Bostobe Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Aralosaurus at a length near 8 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.