Aralosaurus
Name:
Aralosaurus
(Aral lizard - after the Aral sea).
Phonetic: Ah-ral-o-sore-us.
Named By: Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky
- 1968.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Aralsaurinae.
Species: A. tuberiferus
(type).
Diet: Uncertain due to lack of fossil material.
Size: Roughly 8 meters long.
Known locations: Kazakhstan.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull fragment.
Out
of all the hadrosaurs
(popularly known as duckbilled dinosaurs)
Aralosaurus is noted for having extremely little in
the way of fossil
material attributed to it; a piece of the skull. This piece however
does suggest the presence of an arched nasal area similar to that seen
in other genera such as Gryposaurus
which might suggest a saurolophine
lineage for Aralosaurus. Other information that
is occasionally
attributed to this dinosaur in other sources is done so as a result of
comparisons to other much better documented genera.
Another
hadrosaurid dinosaur from Kazakhstan is Jaxartosaurus.
Further reading
- Gadrozavry Kazakhstana [Hadrosaurs of Kazakhstan], Anatoly
Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky - 1968.
- A re-appraisal of "Aralosaurus tuberiferus"
(Dinosauria,
Hadrosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan. - Bulletin de
l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la
Terre (74): 139–154. - P. Godefroit, V. Alifanov & Y. Boltsky -
2004.
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