Bactrosaurus
Sign in to saveBactrosaurus (; meaning "Club lizard," "baktron" = club + sauros = lizard) is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, from about 96 to 85 million years ago. The position Bactrosaurus occupies in the Cretaceous makes it one of the earliest known hadrosauroids, and although it is not known from a full skeleton, Bactrosaurus is one of the best known of these early hadrosauroids, making its discovery a significant finding.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Hadrosauromorpha
- Image
- Smuggled Bactrosaurus skeleton.jpg
- Length
- 6.0
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- Commons category
- Bactrosaurus
- end time
- 70000000-0
- taxon name
- Bactrosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 90000000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- China
- main food source
- herbivore
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Bactrosaurus war eine Gattung der Vogelbeckendinosaurier aus der Gruppe der Hadrosauridae. Fossilfunde dieser Gattung stammen aus der späten Oberkreide (Campanium). Die Fossilien der Typusart B. johnsoni wurden in der Wüste Gobi in der Inneren Mongolei gefunden und 1933 beschrieben.
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