Kazaklambia

Kazaklambia is known from a nearly complete skeleton, missing only the snout, hands, left foot, and tail tip. It is the most complete dinosaur ever found in Kazakhstan and the whole former Soviet Union.1

This dinosaur was first thought to be a species of Procheneosaurus, but scientists later realized it was a different animal and gave it a new name in 2013.1

Kazaklambia lived about 86 to 84 million years ago, during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.1

The skeleton of Kazaklambia is from a juvenile, so scientists are not sure how big adults would have been.1

Kazaklambia is one of the oldest known lambeosaurines, a group of duck-billed dinosaurs with hollow crests on their heads.1

Its discovery helped support the idea that lambeosaurine dinosaurs first evolved in Asia before spreading to North America.1