Haolong dongi Haolong
"spiny dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Haolong 2.5 m (8 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.5 m (8 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.