Dalinghosaurus
Dalinghosaurus (often incorrectly spelled "Dalinghesaurus") is an extinct genus of lizards, first described in 1998 by S.A. Ji of the Peking University Department of Geology. The type species is Dalinghosaurus longidigitus. It is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) aged Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.
| Dalinghosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, ~ | |
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| Dalinghosaurus longidigitus on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Anguimorpha |
| Infraorder: | Paleoanguimorpha |
| Clade: | Shinisauria |
| Genus: | †Dalinghosaurus |
| Species: | †D. longidigitus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dalinghosaurus longidigitus Ji, 1998 | |
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