BOLONG
a herbivorous hadrosauroid iguanotontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.
Pronunciation: bo-long
Meaning: Bo (Hai-Chen & Xue) dragon
Author/s: Wu, Godefroit and Hu (
2010)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Liaoning, China
Discovery Chart Position: #696
Bolong yixianensis
(Bo dragon from Yixian)Etymology
Bolong is derived from "Bo" for brothers Bo Hai-Chen and Bo Xue (the Chinese list their family name first) who discovered and excavated the first specimen, and the Chinese "long" (dragon). The
species epithet,
yixianensis, means "from Yixian" in Latin, referring to both the Yixian Formation where it was found and Yixian City where its fossils—at the Yizhou Fossil Museum—are housed.
Discovery
The
holotype of
Bolong (YHZ-001), a partial skull and skeleton, was found in the Dakangpu Member of the Yixian Formation, Bataigou, Toutai, Yixian County, western Liaoning Province, China, by Bo Hai-Chen and Bo Xue in 2000. A very young specimen (ZMNH M8812), found preserved on a slab of stone by a local farmer at Xitaizhi Village, Shantou Town, Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol, China, represents the first juvenile non-hadrosaurid iguanodontian specimen known from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Asia.
Preparators
Yuqing Zhang and Chaohe Yu, under the supervision of Dr Junchang
Lü (juvenile specimen).
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian-Aptian
Age range: 130-122 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 4 meters
Est. max. hip height: 1.3 meters
Est. max. weight: 200 Kg
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Wu W-H, Godefroit P and Hu D-Y (2010) "
Bolong yixianensis gen. et sp. nov.: A new Iguanodontoid dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China".
Geology & Resources, 19(2): 127-133.
• Wu W-H and Godefroit P (2012) "Anatomy and relationships of
Bolong yixianensis, an Early Cretaceous iguanodontoid dinosaur from western Liaoning, China". In
Godefroit (ed.) "
Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems".
Indiana University Press.
• Zheng W, Jin X-S, Shibata M and Azuma Y (2013) "An early juvenile specimen of
Bolong yixianensis (Ornithopoda:Iguanodontia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol, China".
Historical Biology—An International Journal of Paleobiology, 26(2): 236-251. Fifth International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies.
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