Daurlong

Dauria dragon

• Daur · Daur/Dauria (place/people name) · referring to the Daur people and the Dauria region of northeastern China and Mongolia
• long · Chinese · dragon

Daurlong combines "Daur", a reference to the Daur people and the Dauria region of Inner Mongolia where the fossil was found, with the Chinese word "long", meaning dragon. It therefore means roughly "Daur dragon" and marks the place of discovery. The type species is Daurlong wangi.

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Longjiang Formation, Inner Mongolia, China

A small feathered troodontid theropod, known from a well-preserved specimen with soft-tissue and feather traces. Some details (authorship, exact year and geologic stage) are omitted because I am not certain of them.