Aralosaurus
AR-ah-low-SORE-us /ˌærəloʊˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Aral lizard
- Aral · Place name (Aral Sea region) · the Aral Sea area, Kazakhstan
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines "Aral", for the Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It means "Aral lizard". The type species is Aralosaurus tuberiferus.
- Named by
- Rozhdestvensky
- Year named
- 1968
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Found in
- Beleutinskaya Formation, near the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan
A hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur) known from skull material. The exact age and stage of the formation are uncertain, so stages are left blank.