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 (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.