Genus: Probactrosaurus ROZHDESTVENSKY, 1966
Etymology: Greek, pro-, "before" + Bactrosaurus; “Before Bactrosaurus”, The name indicated the possibility that this genus may have been an ancestor of the later Bactrosaurus.

Species: gobiensis ROZHDESTVENSKY, 1966
Etymology: In reference to the Gobi Desert.

Holotype: PIN 2232/1

Locality: Alashan, Maortu, Zizhiqu, Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongolia), China.

Horizon: Dashuigou Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Aptian-Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Mounted partial skeleton, quadrapedal pose.

Breakdown as follows (per NORMAN, 2002)

PIN 2232/1-2: Partial skull roof, premaxilla.

PIN 2232/1-1a: Jugal.

PIN 2232/1-4: Right surangular.

PIN 2232/1-4: Axial; 7 poorly preserved cervical vertebrae, 6 dorsals, 4 sacrals, 22 caudals; Appendicular; right and left scapulae, left coracoid, right and part of left humerus, right and left ulna, right radius, metacarpals II? III? IV, V? left femur, left tibia, left and right fibula, and left metatarsals II-IV.

Referred material:

2 incomplete skeletons, a few articulated parts of a skeleton (limbs and girdle) and a large number of scattered bones from the Maortu site 60 km north of lake Dzhilantay.

NORMAN, 2002

PIN 2232/2-1: Neurocranial fragment.

PIN 2232/2-2 : Partial left dentary.

PIN 2232/2-5: Coracoid.

PIN 2232/2-8: Humerus.

PIN 2232/2-9: Metacarpal.

PIN 2232/3-1: Metacarpal.

PIN 2232/9-2: Partial left maxilla.

PIN 2232/10: Mounted partial skeleton, bipedial pose).

Breakdown as follows;.

PIN 2232/10-2: Right dentary, partial skull roof, maxilla, 6 cervicals, 18 dorsals, 7 sacrals, 24 caudals, left and right scapula, right coracoid, left sternal, left and right humerus, left and right radius, left and right ulna, manus, left and right ilium, left and right ischium, actebular fragments of pubis, left and right femur, left and right tibia, left and right fibula, metatarsals II-IV (left and right), phalanges (Left pes: IIi, Iliii; IIVi-Vi; right pes; IIIi-iv, Ivi-v).

PIN 2232/10-69: Manus phalanx? Vii or Viii.

PIN 2232/11-2: Manus phalanx IIIiii, Il-4, pollex ungual; II-5 ungual manus II.

PIN 2232/17-1: Skull roof.

PIN 2232/18-1: Partial left dentary.

PIN 2232/18-5: Metacarpal III.

PIN 2232/18-6: Metacarpal.

PIN 2232/18-8: Phalanx manus Iii.

PIN 2232/18-9: Right femur.

PIN 2232/19-1: Left ilium.

PIN 2232/21-1: Humerus.

PIN 2232/23-1: Predentary.

PIN 2232/23-2: 2 isolated dentary teeth with roots.

PIN 2232-23-3: Quadrate.

PIN 2232/23-56: Pubis.

PIN 2232/24-1: Worn dentary tooth.

PIN 2232/27-3: Scapula.

PIN 2232/29-2: Right ischium.

PIN 2232/32-1: Left tibia.

PIN 2232/36-1: Skull roof.

PIN 2232/36-2: Dentary.

PIN 2232/36-3: Dentary.

PIN 2232/37-7: Ilium.

PIN 2232/39-1: Left femur.

PIN 2232/3?: Left dentary with teeth.

Field no. 12017 (Pin 2232/2-): Metacarpals, and left ilium.

Field number 12068: Metacarpal II.

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Species: alashanicus ROZHDESTVENKSY, 1966
Etymology: In reference to Alashan, Maortu, Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongolia), Zizhiqu, China, where the specimen was discovered.

Holotype: PIN 2232/46

Locality: Alashan, Maortu, Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongolia), Zizhiqu, China.

Horizon: Dashuigou Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Aptian-Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Posterior part of skull.

Referred material:

PIN 2232/42-1: Dentary.

PIN 2232/41-1: Dentary.

PIN 2232/41-2: Scapula.

PIN 2232/41-3: Scapula.

PIN 2232/41-4: Fragmentary left humerus.

PIN 2232/43: Tibia.

PIN 2232/40-3: Caudal vertebrae.

PIN 2232/40-5, 40-6: Left metatarsal block, II, III.

Jaws, vertebrae, limb bones and their girdles belong to several individuals.