Bolong
Sign in to saveBolong (meaning "Bo's dragon") is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It lived about 125 million years ago in the earliest Aptian.
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Bolong (meaning "Bo's dragon") is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It lived about 125 million years ago in the earliest Aptian.
==Discovery and naming== It was named by Wu Wen-hao, Pascal Godefroit and Hu Dong-yu in 2010. The type species is Bolong yixianensis. The genus name is derived from the names of the brothers Bo Hai-chen and Bo Xue, who helped uncover it, and the Mandarin word 龍 lóng "dragon". The specific epithet refers to the Yixian Formation where it was found.