Yuanyanglong bainian
"lovebird dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yuanyanglong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Yuanyanglong (meaning “lovebird dragon”) is an extinct genus of oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Miaogou Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Yuanyanglong bainian, known from two partial skeletons.
What we know
- Named by Hao et al., 2025.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Yuanyanglong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.