Lingwulong
Dicraeosaurid dinosaur genus from Mid Jurassic China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lingwulong | |
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Skeletal reconstruction and exemplar skeletal remains of L. shenqi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
Family: | †Dicraeosauridae |
Genus: | †Lingwulong Xu et al., 2018 |
Species: | †L. shenqi |
Binomial name | |
†Lingwulong shenqi Xu et al., 2018 | |
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Lingwulong is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Lingwu, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China. The type and only species is L. shenqi, known from several partial skeletons. It is the earliest-aged neosauropod ever discovered, as well as the only definite diplodocoid from east Asia.[1]