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beaked plant-eater
Kazaklambia
Say it like this: “kah-zak-LAM-bee-uh”
Kazaklambia convincens
Kazaklambia ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Kazakhstan.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Coniacian · Santonian) · roughly 89.8 to 83.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2013 · Bell, P. R.; Brink, K. S.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4.7 m · 15 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Kazakhstan · Darbazin
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Kazaklambia was formally named in 2013 by P. R. Bell and K. S. Brink. The name means “kazakhstan Lambeosaurus.”
Fossils referred to Kazaklambia date to the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian · Santonian), roughly 89.8 to 83.6 million years ago. Finds come from Kazakhstan, including the Darbazin Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Kazaklambia at a length near 4.7 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.