Genus
Valid Extinct

Datonglong

Xu et al. 2016

Datonglong is an extinct genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur, belonging to the Hadrosauroidea, which lived in the Late Cretaceous period in present-day China. Its type species is Datonglong tianzhenensis.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Ornithopoda Suborder
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Iguanodontia Infraorder
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Euiguanodontia Unranked clade
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Dryomorpha Unranked clade
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Ankylopollexia Unranked clade
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Styracosterna Unranked clade
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Hadrosauriformes Unranked clade
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Hadrosauroidea Unranked clade
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Datonglong Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Huiquanpu
1
Temporal distribution
Coniacian (89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Datonglong tianzhenensis 101 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
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
Bibliography (1)
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