Zuoyunlong
Field photograph to come
Zuoyunlong
DV-1007
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wang et al. 2017
Field notes
About Zuoyunlong
Zuoyunlong was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 84 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Zuoyunlong, from China. Its fossils come from the Zhumapu Formation. It was named by Wang et al. in 2017.
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: R.-F. Wang, H.-L. You, and S.-Z. Wang, S.-C. Xu, J. Yi, L.-J. Xie, L. Jia, H. Xing. 2017. A second hadrosauroid dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China. Historical Biology 29(1):17-24