Probactrosaurus

"before"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Probactrosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Probactrosaurus (meaning “before Bactrosaurus”) is an extinct genus of basal hadrosauroid iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous period.

What we know

  • Named by Rozhdestvensky, 1966.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

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