Lingwulong

Lingwulong is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Lingwu, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China. The type and only species is L. shenqi, known from several partial skeletons. It is the earliest-aged neosauropod ever discovered, as well as the only definite diplodocoid from east Asia.

Lingwulong
Temporal range:
Skeletal reconstruction and exemplar skeletal remains of L. shenqi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Superfamily: Diplodocoidea
Family: Dicraeosauridae
Genus: Lingwulong
Xu et al., 2018
Species:
L. shenqi
Binomial name
Lingwulong shenqi
Xu et al., 2018
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