Bactrosaurus was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited Asia. Its fossils have been found in places such as Inner Mongolia (China), Turkistan Region (Kazakhstan) and Ömnögovi (Mongolia).
Quick facts about Bactrosaurus:
- Existed from Upper Cretaceous Epoch to 66 million years ago
- Lived in a terrestrial habitat
- Was a herbivore
- Reproduced by laying eggs
- 8 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Bactrosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. N. Riabinin. 1937. O nakhodke shlemonosnykh form Dinosauria verkhnemelovykh otlozheniyakh yuzhnogo Kazakhstana [The discovery of crested forms of Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs in southern Kazakhstan]. Priroda 1937(9):91
- C.-C. Young. 1958. The first record of dinosaurian remains from Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(4):231-236
- D. E. Fastovsky. 1997. Short summary of the geologyof some selected dinosaur-bearing localities in the western Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Abstract of Report Meeting, Mongolia-Japan Joint Paleontological Expedition
