Gongshuilong

"Gong River dragon"

Type species Gongshuilong fanwei

Lived: 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in: China
Named by: Yao et al. 2026

Where its fossils were found

The evidence

Today

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Field notes

About Gongshuilong

What it was like

Gongshuilong was a duck-billed plant eater without a hollow crest. It is known from scattered bones of at least two animals found together.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now southern China. Its bones come from the Lianhe Formation.

How it was found

Yao and colleagues named Gongshuilong in 2026.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauridae

Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. Yao, W. Qiu, and J. Yu, L. Yang, H. Wang, S. Cao, K. Zhao, M. Xu, G. Shi, F. Lou, C. Zeng, P. Lu, R. Wu, X. Xu, F. Han, H. Xing. 2026. A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of South China, providing further support for the possible Asian origin of Brachylophosaurini. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 24(1):2635569