Datonglong

Field photograph to come

DV-0947Huiquanpu Fm., China

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

1 find

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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