Huangshanlong
Field photograph to come
Huangshanlong
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- Lived
- 175 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Mamenchisauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Huang et al. 2014
Field notes
About Huangshanlong
Huangshanlong was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 175 to 162 million years ago. It belongs to the family Mamenchisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Huangshanlong, from China. Its fossils come from the Hongqin Formation. It was named by Huang et al. in 2014.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
170 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Mamenchisauridae.
- MamenchisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- OmeisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- BellusaurusLate Jurassic
- XinjiangtitanMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AbrosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- TongnanlongLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- UragasaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Zigongosaurussauropod
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J.-D. Huang, H.-L. You, and J.-T. Yang, X.-X. Ren. 2014. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Huangshan, Anhui Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 52(4):390-400