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Yongjinglong

"dragon"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yongjinglong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Yongjinglong
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Euhelopodidae

Yongjinglong is an extinct genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Lanzhou-Minhe Basin of Gansu Province, China. It contains a single species, Yongjinglong datangi.

What we know

  • Named by Li et al., 2014.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

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