Outline: a typical sauropod
Qiaowanlong
"Qiaowan dragon"
Type species Qiaowanlong kangxii
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You and Li 2009
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Qiaowanlong
What it was like
Qiaowanlong was a long-necked sauropod known from neck bones and hips. Its neck bones have split spines, a feature also seen in some unrelated sauropods.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Xiagou Formation, where it shared the land with the early tyrannosaur Xiongguanlong, the horned Archaeoceratops and the therizinosaur Suzhousaurus.
How it was found
You and Li named Qiaowanlong in 2009. The type species is Qiaowanlong kangxii.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Euhelopodidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H.-L. You and D.-Q. Li. 2009. The first well-preserved Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaur in Asia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276(1675):4077-4082