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Datonglong tianzhenensis ✝
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Rank | species (PBDB) | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Datonglong : Datonglong tianzhenensis | ||||||||||
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 101 - 72 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 101 - 72 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||
Environment | terrestrial (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Diet | herbivore (based on Ornithopoda) | ||||||||||
Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | S.-C. Xu, H.-L. You, and J.-W. Wang, S.-Z. Wang, J. Yi, L. Jia. 2016. A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 54(1):67-78 |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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2016 | Datonglong tianzhenensis Xu et al. p. 69 fig. 2 |
References
Xu S.-C., You H.-L., et al (2016) A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 54 1, 67-78 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!