Yongjinglong

Field photograph to come

DV-09095 Fm., China

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

1 find

120 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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