Jaxartosaurus - Dinosaurs A-Z Traditional Cache
Jaxartosaurus - Dinosaurs A-Z
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"J" Jaxartosaurus
Dinosaurs A-Z will introduce you to some unique dinosaurs. I'm a big dinosaur fan and have read and researched many dinosaurs. Irritator is the tenth in my collection of dinosaur geocaches.
Jaxartosaurus:
A genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur similar to Corythosaurus which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in Kazakhstan and China. It had a large, helmet-like crest that it may have used for visual identification, or to vocalize with members of the same herd.
The type species, J. aralensis, was first described by Anatoly Nikolaenvich Riabinin in 1937. A second species, J. fuyunensis, was described by Weishampel and Horner in 1990, but is dubious.
About:
One of the more mysterious hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, of the middle to late Cretaceous period, Jaxartosaurus has been reconstructed from scattered skull fragments found near the Syr Darya river, known as the Jaxartes in ancient times. Like many hadrosaurs, Jaxartosaurus had a prominent crest on its head (which was probably larger in males than in females, and may have been used to produce piercing calls), and this dinosaur probably spent most of its time grazing on low-lying bushes in a quadrupedal posture--though it may have been capable of running away on two feet to escape pursuing tyrannosaurs and raptors.
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- In summer, we've seen poison ivy at the trail entrance.
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