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beaked plant-eater
Batyrosaurus
Say it like this: “bah-TEE-row-SOR-us”
Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi
Batyrosaurus ate plants and walked on two 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
- 2012 · Godefroit, P.; Escuillié, F.; Bolotsky, Y. L.; Lauters, P.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4.5 m · 15 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Kazakhstan · Bostobe
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauroidea
The story in short
Batyrosaurus was formally named in 2012 by P. Godefroit and colleagues. The name means “hero warrior.”
Fossils referred to Batyrosaurus 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 walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Batyrosaurus at a length near 4.5 m.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauroidea, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.