Outline: a typical ornithopod
Xuwulong
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You et al. 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Xuwulong
What it was like
Xuwulong was an early relative of the duckbills, a plant eater with a long, low skull. It is known from a skull and part of the skeleton.
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 sauropod Qiaowanlong, the early tyrannosaur Xiongguanlong and the horned Archaeoceratops.
How it was found
You and colleagues named Xuwulong in 2011.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. You, D. Li, and W. Liu. 2011. A new hadrosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 85(1):51-57