Datonglong

Din no ase: “Datong dragon, after the city of Datong in China”1

Ɔdii: NhabanAhabandifoɔ a wɔwɔ anomaa anoKretasias Awieeɛ

Datonglong was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Late Cretaceous. It had a special jaw with two teeth in each tooth spot, which helped it chew tough plants.1 2

Ɔtenaa ase

mfeɛ ɔpepem 100 kɔsi 72 a atwam4

Kretasias Awieeɛ

Wɔhunuu fɔsil wɔ

Shanxi Province, China3 1

Ntɛmntɛm a ɛsen biara

bɛyɛ 41 km/h (25 mph)

Mmirikatuo, nsusuiɛ

Berɛ bɛn na ɛtenaa ase?

Triasik

Jurasik

Kretasias

mfeɛ ɔpepem 252 a atwam20114566, ɔsoro ɛboɔ no

Na ɛyɛ ntɛm sɛn?

Onipa a ɔnante bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3 mph)

Abofra a ɔte sakre so bɛyɛ 12 km/h (7 mph)

Datonglong bɛyɛ 41 km/h (25 mph)

Ɔpɔnkɔ a ɔretu mmirika bɛyɛ 65 km/h (40 mph)

Kyiita bɛyɛ 100 km/h (62 mph)

nneɛma a ɛyɛ fɛ

Nsɛm a ɛyɛ anigye

Datonglong had two functional teeth in each tooth socket, which is different from most other hadrosauroids.2

The only known fossil of Datonglong is a piece of its lower jaw, called a dentary, which is 34 centimeters (13 inches) long.1

Its teeth could be up to 5.5 centimeters (2.2 inches) tall, even before they fully grew in.1

Datonglong lived between about 100 and 72 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.3

The name Datonglong means 'Datong dragon', after the city of Datong in China where the fossil was found.1

Datonglong is a hadrosauroid, meaning it is closely related to duck-billed dinosaurs but not a true hadrosaurid.1

The fossil was discovered in 2008 by a team from the Shanxi Museum of Geological and Mineral Science and Technology.1

Yei yɛ Datonglong mfonini a AI yɛeɛ, sɛdeɛ ebia na ɔteɛ. Kɔmputa na ɛyɛeɛ firi deɛ nyansahufoɔ nim mu. Ɛyɛ nsusuiɛ: ebia na aboa ankasa no nte saa, na obiara nnim ne kɔla ankasa.

wobisaeɛ

Nsɛm a wɔbisa bebree fa Datonglong ho

?What did Datonglong eat?

It was a plant-eater. Its special jaw with two teeth in each spot helped it chew tough plants.1

?How big was Datonglong?

Nobody knows for sure because only a piece of its lower jaw, 34 centimetres (13 inches) long, has been found. Scientists cannot estimate its full size from just that.1

?When did Datonglong live?

It lived during the Late Cretaceous period, roughly between 95 and 80 million years ago.1

Ma dino ho animdefoɔ

Nyansahu din: Datonglong
Obi a ɔtoo din: Xu et al. 20164
Kuo: Ahabandifoɔ a wɔwɔ anomaa ano
Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ: Hadrosauroidea4
Nkyekyɛmu: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
Abotan no mfeɛ: mfeɛ ɔpepem 100 kɔsi 72 (Cenomanian / Campanian)4
Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ: Huiquanpu4
Aman: Kyaena4
Fɔsil nkyerɛwee: 1 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu4
Nhunumu: Datonglong was named and described in 2016 by Xu Shicha and colleagues, based on a lower jaw found in the Huiquanpu Formation of Shanxi, China.1 2
Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye: Scientists are not sure exactly how old the Datonglong fossil is, but it likely dates from between 100 and 72 million years ago.1

Baabi a nsɛm no firi

Datonglong (en.wikipedia.org)
A New Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, China (vertpala.ac.cn)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Datonglong in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.

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