Outline: a typical ornithopod
Zuoyunlong
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Wang et al. 2017
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Zuoyunlong
What it was like
Zuoyunlong was a relative of the duckbills, a plant eater known from a hip bone.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Zhumapu Formation, where the duckbill relative Yunganglong also lived.
How it was found
Wang and colleagues named Zuoyunlong in 2017.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R.-F. Wang, H.-L. You, and S.-Z. Wang, S.-C. Xu, J. Yi, L.-J. Xie, L. Jia, H. Xing. 2017. A second hadrosauroid dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China. Historical Biology 29(1):17-24