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Ankylosauridae

Datai yingliangis

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Datai 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Datai
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.
Datai reconstruction by Ddinodan
Reconstruction · Ddinodan (CC-BY)

Datai is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Zhoutian Formation of Jiangxi Province, China. The genus contains a single species, D. yingliangis, which is known from the articulated skulls and partial skeletons of two individuals.

What we know

  • Named by Xing et al., 2024.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

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