Bactrosaurus baktruh-SƆːRUHS
"Club lizard,"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bactrosaurus 6.5 m (21.3 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6.5 m (21.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (96–85 Mya)
- Place
- Asia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Bactrosaurus (; 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.
What we know
- Named by Gilmore, 1933.
- Body length estimated at about 6.5 m.
- Fossils found in Asia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Bactrosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.