Qiaowanlong kangxii Qiaowanlong
"Qiaowan dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qiaowanlong 12 m (39 ft) long
7 people holding hands
- Length
- 12 m (39 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Euhelopodidae
Qiaowanlong (meaning “Qiaowan dragon”) is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur. Fossils belonging to the genus were found in the Yujinzi Basin of what is today Gansu Province, China. The remains come from a geological formation called the Xiagou Formation in the Xinminpu Group, dating to the late Aptian Stage of the Early Cretaceous.
What we know
- Named by You & Li, 2009.
- Body length estimated at about 12 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.