Lingwulong shenqi Lingwulong

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lingwulong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
Place
Asia · China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

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.