Bactrosaurus

Pronunciation:
bak-troh-sore-us
Name meaning:
'club [spined] lizard'

© Andrey Atuchin

Type of dinosaur:
large ornithopod
Length:
6.0m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 84-71 million years ago
Found in:
China

Skull fragments and postcranial bones of at least 12 Bactrosaurus individuals, juvenile to adult, have been found.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae
Named by:
Gilmore (1933)
Type species:
johnsoni