Yunganglong

Say it: YUNG-gang-long

Name means: “Yungang dragon, after the Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site near where it was found”1

Ate: PlantsBeaked plant-eatersLate Cretaceous

Yunganglong was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now China. It walked on two legs or all fours and had a beak like a duck. It was an early relative of the duck-billed dinosaurs.2

Lived

100 to 84 million years ago5

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Zuoyun County, Shanxi Province, China1

Food

Plants3

Length

10 m3

estimate from PBDB

Weight

4.7 tonnes4

estimate for the largest known specimen

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 3 cars

as long as 2 cars parked in a rowas long as 56 bananas end to endabout as heavy as an elephantas heavy as 940 watermelons

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Fun facts

Yunganglong lived about 100 to 84 million years ago, during the early Late Cretaceous.3

The only known skeleton is a partial one, including parts of the skull, backbone, hips, and leg bones.1

Yunganglong was a basal hadrosauroid, meaning it was an early cousin of the duck-billed dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus.2

The skull of Yunganglong was wide and low, with a width of 37 cm (14.6 in) between its paroccipital processes.2

Its fossils were found alongside remains of ankylosaurs and ceratopsians, other plant-eating dinosaurs.1

The name Yunganglong honors the Yungang Grottoes, ancient Buddhist cave temples about 50 km east of the fossil site.1

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Scientific name: Yunganglong
Named by: Wang et al. 20135
Group: Beaked plant-eaters
Family / clade: Hadrosauroidea5
Classification: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia5
Age of the rocks: 100 to 84 million years (Cenomanian / Santonian)5
Rock formations: Zhumapu5
Countries: China5
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database5
Discovery: Yunganglong was named in 2013 by a team of Chinese scientists led by Run-Fu Wang. The fossils were found in 2011 during a project to find dinosaurs for the Shanxi Museum of Geology.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how old the rocks are that contained Yunganglong, because no radiometric dates have been obtained for the Zhumapu Formation.2

Where the facts come from

Yunganglong (en.wikipedia.org)
A New Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Early Late Cretaceous of Shanxi Province, China | PLOS One (journals.plos.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Yunganglong datongensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Yunganglong in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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