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XUWULONG
(zu-wu-long)
meaning: "Xuwu dragon"
Xuwulong
Named By: You, Li & Liu in 2011
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, Aptian-Albian
Location: China, Gansu Province
Size: Uncertain
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull and partial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Hadrosauriformes | Hadrosauroidea |
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Xuwulong is a genus of iguanodontoid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period. It is a basal hadrosauriform which lived during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian-Albian age) in what is now Yujingzi Basin in the Jiuquan area, Gansu Province of northwestern China. It is known from the holotype - GSGM F00001, an articulated specimen including a complete cranium, almost complete axial skeleton, and complete left pelvic girdle from Xinminpu Group. Xuwulong was named by You Hailu, Li Daqing and Liu Weichang in 2011 and the type species is Xuwulong yueluni.

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