Yuzhoulong qurenensis Yuzhoulong
"Chongqing dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yuzhoulong 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Yuzhoulong (meaning “Chongqing dragon”, after Yuzhou, an early name for Chongqing) is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation of Chongqing, China. The type and only species is Yuzhoulong qurenensis.
What we know
- Named by Dai et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in China.