Datonglong
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Datonglong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99–80 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Datonglong is an extinct genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur, belonging to the Hadrosauroidea, which lived in the Late Cretaceous period in present-day China. Its type species is Datonglong tianzhenensis.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2016.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Datonglong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.