Outline: a typical theropod
Wulatelong
"Wulate dragon"
Type species Wulatelong gobiensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Wulatelong
What it was like
Wulatelong was an oviraptor, a feathered dinosaur with a toothless beak, known from a partial skull and skeleton.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern China. Its bones come from the Wulansuhai Formation, where it shared the land with Protoceratops, the armored Pinacosaurus and the raptor Linheraptor.
How it was found
Xu and colleagues named Wulatelong in 2013, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, Q.-W. Tan, and S. Wang, C. Sullivan, D. W. E. Hone, F.-L. Han, Q.-Y. Ma, L. Tan, D. Xiao. 2013. A new oviraptorid from the Upper Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China, and its stratigraphic implications. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(2):85-101