Bactrosaurus
Bactrosaurus johnsoni
Pronounced: Back - trow -Saw-rus
Diet: Herbivore (plant-eater)
Name Means:
Length: 20 feet (6 m)
Height: 7 feet (2 m)
Weight: 1.25 tons (1,100 kilos)
Time: Fossil remains for this Dinosaur have been found in
China, Russia
Bactrosaurus was a smaller duckbill dinosaur that lived in what is
now Asia and Russia.
This was a very early ancestor of
Lambeosaurus another duckbill. Like its relatives, Bacrtrosaurus
was a plant-eater that had many hundreds of teeth, long back legs and short
front legs, and a beak on the front of its mouth for cutting and tearing
tough plants.
Bactrosaurus was more powerfully built than most other hadrosaurs and was
very heavy for its size. It almost appears to be a transitional animal
linking Iguanodon s with hadrosaurs, and
researchers have noted that it almost looks more like an
Iguanodon than a hadrosaur. |
