Datonglong
Field photograph to come
Datonglong
DV-0947
- Lived
- 101 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2016
Field notes
About Datonglong
Datonglong was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Datonglong, from China. Its fossils come from the Huiquanpu Formation. It was named by Xu et al. in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S.-C. Xu, H.-L. You, and J.-W. Wang, S.-Z. Wang, J. Yi, L. Jia. 2016. A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 54(1):67-78