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beaked plant-eater
Datonglong
Say it like this: “dah-tong-long”
Datonglong tianzhenensis
Datonglong ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Campanian) · roughly 100.5 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2016 · Xu, S. C.; You, H. L.; Wang, J. W.; Wang, S. Z.; Yi, J.; Jia, L.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 9.3 m · 31 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Huiquanpu
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauroidea
The story in short
The genus Datonglong dates to 2016, the year S. C. Xu and colleagues described it. The name means “datong dragon.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Campanian), roughly 100.5 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Huiquanpu Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Datonglong at a length near 9.3 m.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauroidea, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Altirhinus
Altirhinus kurzanovi
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Batyrosaurus
Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi
Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
Bolong
Bolong yixianensis
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago