Jaxartosaurus aralensis Jaxartosaurus
"Jaxartes lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jaxartosaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Kazakhstan
- Food
- Herbivore
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.