Bolong

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.
Species: B.‭ ‬yixianensis‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
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.

       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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