Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Huaxiazhoulong
Type species Huaxiazhoulong shouwen
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs, Ankylosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zhu et al. 2024
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Huaxiazhoulong
What it was like
Huaxiazhoulong was an ankylosaur, an armored plant eater with bony plates on its body. It is known from a partial skeleton.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern China. Its bones come from the Tangbian Formation.
How it was found
Zhu and colleagues named it in 2024. The type species is Huaxiazhoulong shouwen.
Close relatives
Other members of Ankylosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: Z. Zhu, J. Wu, and Y. You, Y. Jia, C. Chen, X. Yao, W. Zheng, X. Xu. 2024. A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology