Wudingloong

DV-1293 · type species Wudingloong wui

Lived: 201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: China
Named by: Wang et al. 2025

Field notes

About Wudingloong

Wudingloong was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Wudingloong, from China. Its fossils come from the Yubacun Formation. It was named by Wang et al. in 2025.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

195 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Massopoda.

AnchisaurusEarly Jurassic
XiangyunloongEarly Jurassic
MusankwaLate Triassic
TuebingosaurusLate Triassic

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Y. Wang, Q. Zhang, and Y. Wang, H. Xu, J. Chen, Z. Feng, X. Xu, T. Wang, H. You. 2025. A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia. Scientific Reports 15:26749