Haolong dongi
"spiny dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Haolong 2.5 m (8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 2.5 m (8 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Haolong (“spiny dragon”) is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian age) Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. The genus contains a single species, Haolong dongi, known from a nearly complete, articulated skeleton with preserved integumentary structures.
What we know
- Body length estimated at about 2.45 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Haolong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.