Named By: | Yuri Bolotsky and Sergei Kurzanov in 1991 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 70-66 Ma |
Location: | Russia - Udurchukan Formation |
Size: | Unavailable |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Remains of many individuals though these are mostly preserved in a bone bed of remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Lambeosaurinae | Hadrosauridae | |
Amurosaurus ("Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the latest Cretaceous period (66 million years ago) of eastern Asia. Like most lambeosaurs, it would have been a primarily bipedal herbivore with a "duckbill" shaped snout and a hollow crest on top of its head, although such a crest has not been found. Fossil bones of adults are rare, but an adult would most likely have been at least 6 metres (20 ft) long. According to Gregory S. Paul, it was about 8 metres (26 ft) long and weighed about 3,000 kilograms (6,600 lb).