In Depth
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.
