Named By: | Jinyou Mo, Fusheng Zhou, Guang Ning Li, Zhen Hunag & Chenyun Cao in 2014 |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous |
Location: | China, Guangxi Province |
Size: | Estimated about 7-8 meters long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial post cranial remains, mostly of the hip bones and a dorsal (back) vertebra |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Carcharodontosauria | |
Not to be confused with Datonglong, a hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur.
Datanglong is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod belonging to the Tetanurae. It existed during the Early Cretaceous in what is now southeastern China.