Pronounced - jax-SAHR-toh-SAWR-us Named By - Riabinin When Named - 1934
DIET:	Herbivore (plant-eater)
SIZE:	Length - Roughly 30 feet (9 m) long Height - ? Weight - ?
WHEN IT LIVED:	Late Cretaceous period, about 91-83 million years ago
WHERE IT LIVED:	Fossils have been found near the Jaxartes River in the Aral Mountains of Kazakhstan, Asia.
FOSSILS:	Only the skull roof and braincase have been found.
CLASSIFICATION:	Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain) Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.) Order Ornithischia - beaked, bird-hipped dinosaurs that were plant-eaters Infraorder Iguanodontia - plant-eaters having spiked thumbs Superfamily Hadrosauroidea - duck-billed dinosaurs Family Lambeosaurinae - hollow-crested duck-billed dinosaurs Genus Jaxartosaurus Species J. aralensis (type species named by Riabinin, 1934)
INTERESTING FACTS:	Jaxartosaurus was a duck-billed dinosaur that had massive, flat-topped cheek teeth. Very little is known about this genus of dinosaur.