Daurlong wangi Daurlong
"Daur dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Daurlong 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.5 m (4.9 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (121.23 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
Daurlong (meaning “Daur dragon”) is an extinct genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Longjiang Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, D. wangi, known from a nearly complete skeleton. Daurlong represents the first described occurrence of a preserved intestinal region in a theropod closely related to birds.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2022.
- Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
- Fossils found in China.