Yongjinglong
Field photograph to come
Yongjinglong
DV-0909
- Lived
- 126 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Li et al. 2014
Field notes
About Yongjinglong
Yongjinglong was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 113 million years ago. It belongs to the family Euhelopodidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yongjinglong, from China. Its fossils come from the 5 Formation. It was named by Li et al. in 2014.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
120 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Euhelopodidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L.-G. Li, D.-Q. Li, and H.-L. You, P. Dodson. 2014. A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, China. PLoS ONE 9(1):e85979:1-22