Yuanyanglong bainian Yuanyanglong
"lovebird dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yuanyanglong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.