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Hadrosauridae

Jaxartosaurus aralensis

"Jaxartes lizard"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jaxartosaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Jaxartosaurus
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Kazakhstan
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Jaxartosaurus (meaning “Jaxartes lizard” after the early name of the Syr Darya) is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur similar to Corythosaurus which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in Kazakhstan.

What we know

  • Named by Riabinin, 1939.
  • Fossils found in Kazakhstan.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Jaxartosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.