In 2016, a group of school children under the guidance of Olga Subbotina discovered the holotype of Kazakhstanosaurus shchuchkinensis.

Both species were eventually named and described in 2021 by two papers, by Yakupova Bolatovna and Akhmemenov Maksutovich,[1] and Jakulova,[2] although a paper naming the genus Kazakhstanosaurus was earlier published in 2019.

The name remained invalid due to the lack of a type species.

The holotype was later put on display at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

[1] Bolatovna and Makustovich (2021) found Kazakhstanosaurus to be the sister taxon to the contemporaneous Undorosaurus.