Luopingosaurus
Luopingosaurus (meaning "Luoping lizard") is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaurid sauropterygian from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation of Yunnan Province, China. The genus contains a single species, L. imparilis, known from a well-preserved, nearly complete skeleton.
| Luopingosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Anisian), ~ | |
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| Luopingosaurus holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Family: | †Pachypleurosauridae |
| Genus: | †Luopingosaurus Xu et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †L. imparilis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Luopingosaurus imparilis Xu et al., 2023 | |
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