Lingwulong
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phylum | Chordata | Lingwulong is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early or Middle Jurassic Yanan Formation in 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. Its exact age is uncertain, but it lived between the late Toarcian and Bajocian ages, with a midpoint estimate age of 174 Ma.
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clade | Diapsida | |
infraclass | Dinosauria | |
order | Saurischia | |
Suborder | Sauropodomorpha | |
family | Dicraeosauridae | |
genus | Lingwulong | |
species | L. shenqi | |
Period | Middle Jurassic |