Amurosaurus (meaning "Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the latest Cretaceous period (66 million years ago) of eastern Asia. Like most lambeosaurs, it would have been a primarily bipedal herbivore with a "duckbill" shaped snout and a hollow crest on top of its head, although such a crest has not been found. Fossil bones of adults are rare, but an adult would most likely have been at least 6 meters (20 feet) long. According to Gregory S. Paul, it was about 8 meters (26 feet) long and weighed about 3,000 kilograms (6,600 lbs).
Its remains were found in the Amur Region in the Asian portion of Russia. This duck-billed dinosaur is the best-known dinosaur in Russia. It is known for a large number of specimens, most of them juveniles, that accumulated on the banks of a river.
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Amurosaurus in illustrated by Timothy Bradley in the Dinopedia of the Jurassic Park Institute as a flipped and colored Barsboldia.
Amber samples of Amurosaurus DNA along with many other animals can be seen in the Hammond Creation Lab in the Jurassic World: The Exhibition sample.