Outline: a typical ornithopod
Zhanghenglong
"Zhang Heng's dragon"
Type species Zhanghenglong yangchengensis
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xing et al. 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Zhanghenglong
What it was like
Zhanghenglong was a plant eater related to the duck-billed dinosaurs, known from part of a skull and skeleton. It shows a stage between earlier iguanodonts and true hadrosaurs.
Its world
It lived about 86 to 84 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now central China. Its bones come from the Majiacun Formation, where it shared the land with the troodontid Xixiasaurus, the small alvarezsaur Xixianykus and the plant eater Nanyangosaurus.
How it was found
Xing and colleagues named Zhanghenglong in 2014, after a famous scientist of ancient China.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. Xing, D. -Y. Wang, and F.-L. Han, C. Sullivan, Q.-Y. Ma, Y.-M. He, D. W. E. Hone, R.-H. Yan, F.-M. Du, X. Xu. 2014. A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with transitional features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China. PLoS One 9(6): e98821