Xiangyunloong fengming

"auspicious cloud dragon"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xiangyunloong 10 m (33 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
10 m (33 ft)
Period
Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Xiangyunloong reconstruction by Connor Ashbridge
Reconstruction · Connor Ashbridge (CC-BY)

Xiangyunloong (meaning “auspicious cloud dragon”) is a genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur known from fossils found in the Early Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation of Yunnan, China. The type and only species is Xiangyunloong fengming.

What we know

  • Named by Hu et al., 2026.
  • Body length estimated at about 10 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Xiangyunloong — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.