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| More Dinosaur Fact Sheets | EnchantedLearning.com Bactrosaurus Fact Sheet |
Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary |
| NAME: | Meaning - Bactrosaurus means "Club-spined lizard" Pronounced - BACK-tra-SAWR-us Named By - Gilmore When Named - 1933 |
| DIET: | Herbivore (plant-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - 20 feet (6 m) long Height - 4.5 ft (1.4 m) tall at the hips Weight - 1500 kg |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Cretaceous period, about 97-85 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in Mongolia and China, Asia. |
| FOSSILS: | About six fragmentary Bactrosaurus fossils have been found. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
Bactrosaurus was a large, plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaur. This ornithopod could walk on two or four legs. It had a long, stiff tail and tall, massive spines on its rear vertebrae (backbones). |
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