Lingwulong shenqi
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lingwulong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Lingwulong is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Lingwu, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China. The type and only species is L. shenqi, known from several partial skeletons. It is one of the earliest neosauropods ever discovered, as well as the only definitive diplodocoid from east Asia.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lingwulong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.