Lingwulong

DV-1029 · type species Lingwulong shenqi

Lived: 175 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: China
Named by: Xu et al. 2018

Field notes

About Lingwulong

Lingwulong was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 175 to 162 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Lingwulong, from China. It was named by Xu et al. in 2018.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

170 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Flagellicaudata.

CetiosauriscusMiddle Jurassic

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, P. Upchurch, and P. D. Mannion, P. M. Barrett, O. R. Regalado-Fernandez, J. Mo, J. Ma, H. Liu. 2018. A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs. Nature Communications 9:2700:1-9