Aralosaurus

Pronunciation:
ar-al-oh-sore-us
Name meaning:
'Aral lizard'
Type of dinosaur:
large ornithopod
Length:
8.0m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 94–84 million years ago
Found in:
Kazakhstan

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
Named by:
Rozhdestvensky (1968)
Type species:
tuberiferus

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