Yunmenglong

DV-0876 · type species Yunmenglong ruyangensis

Lived: 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: China
Named by: Lü et al. 2013

Field notes

About Yunmenglong

Yunmenglong was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 101 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yunmenglong, from China. Its fossils come from the Haoling Formation. It was named by Lü et al. in 2013.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

110 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Somphospondyli.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. Lü, L. Xu, and H. Pu, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, S. Jia, H. Chang, J. Zhang, X. Wei. 2013. A new sauropod dinosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin (central China). Cretaceous Research 44:202-213