Datanglong
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Datanglong 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–112 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Datanglong is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod of uncertain taxonomic placement. It existed during Xinlong Formation, Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian), in what is now Guangxi China.
What we know
- Named by Mo et al., 2014.
- Body length estimated at about 9 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Datanglong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.