Zuoyunlong
"Zuoyun County dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Zuoyunlong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Zuoyunlong (meaning “Zuoyun County dragon”) is an extinct genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur belonging to the Hadrosauroidea that lived during the Late Cretaceous in the area of present China.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2017.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Zuoyunlong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.