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Iguanodontidae

Bolong

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bolong 4 m (13.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Bolong
Length
4 m (13.1 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (125.46 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Iguanodontidae
Bolong reconstruction by TotalDino
Reconstruction · TotalDino (CC-BY)

Bolong (meaning “Bo’s dragon”) is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It lived about 125 million years ago in the earliest Barremian.

What we know

  • Named by Wu, Godefroit & Hu, 2010.
  • Body length estimated at about 4 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Bolong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.