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Ankylosauridae

Huaxiazhoulong shouwen

Generic ankylosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huaxiazhoulong 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ankylosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Huaxiazhoulong
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ankylosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Ankylosauria Club-tailed armored herbivores.
Huaxiazhoulong reconstruction by Ddinodan
Reconstruction · Ddinodan (CC-BY)

Huaxiazhoulong is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Tangbian Formation of Jiangxi Province, China. The genus contains a single species, H. shouwen, known from a partial skeleton.

What we know

  • Named by Zhu et al., 2024.
  • Body length estimated at about 6 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Huaxiazhoulong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.