Bolong

Bo-long.
By Harper Gray
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Gray, H. (2014, June 21). Bolong. Prehistoric-wildlife. https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/bolong/

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Name

Bolong ‭(‬Small dragon‭)‬.

Phonetic

Bo-long.

Named By

Wu Wen-hao,‭ ‬Pascal Godefroit‭ & ‬Hu Dong-Yu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2010.

Classification

Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Hadrosauroidea.

Diet

Herbivore.

Species

B.‭ ‬yixianensis‭

Size

Uncertain due to lack of adult remains,‭ ‬but thought to be no more than a few meters in length.

Known locations

China,‭ ‬Liaoning Province‭ ‬-‭ ‬Yixian Formation.

Time Period

Aptian of the Cretaceous.

Fossil representation

Two individuals.

In Depth

       Bolong is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous.‭ ‬The holotype individual is known from a partial skull and jaws,‭ ‬but a second specimen of a juvenile shows more of the post cranial skeleton.

Further Reading

– Bolong yixianensis gen.‭ ‬et sp.‭ ‬nov.:‭ ‬A new Iguanodontoid dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning,‭ ‬China.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Geology and Resources‭ ‬19‭ (‬2‭)‬:‭ ‬127‭–‬133.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Wu Wen-hao,‭ ‬Pascal Godefroit‭ & ‬Hu Dong-Yu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2010. -‭ ‬An early juvenile specimen of Bolong yixianensis‭ (‬Ornithopoda:Iguanodontia‭) ‬from the Lower Cretaceous of Ningcheng County,‭ ‬Nei Mongol,‭ ‬China.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Historical Biology.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Wenjie Zheng,‭ ‬Xingsheng Jin,‭ ‬Masateru Shibata‭ & ‬Yoichi Azuma‭ ‬-‭ ‬2013.

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