Genus: Batyrosaurus GODEFROIT, ESCUILLIE, BOLTOTSKY, & LAUTERS,
2012
Etymology: The generic name refers to Batyrs, Kazakh heroic knights, and Greek,
sauros, "lizard."
Species:
rozhdestvenskyi GODEFROIT,
ESCUILLIE,
BOLTOTSKY, & LAUTERS,
2012
Etymology: In honor of the famous Russian paleontologist A. N. Rozhdestvensky
for his pioneering works on Middle Asian Iguanodontia.
Holotype: AEHM 4/1
Locality: Akhurgan locality, in the Kzyl-Orda Oblast', 135 km norht of the Dzhusala railway station, east of the Aral Sea, Central Kazakhstan.
Horizon: Bostobinskaya Svita.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Santonian-Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Partial skull and mandible, about 60 isolated teeth, paired sternals, a right humerus, a left radius, fragmentary metacarpals and manual phalanges.