Lingwulong
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Skeletal reconstruction and post-cranial skeletal elements by Lingwulong shenqi |
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| Lower Jurassic ( Toarcium ) to Middle Jurassic ( Bajocium ) | ||||||||||||
| ~ 174 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Xu , Upchurch , Mannion , 2018 |
Lingwulong is a genus of sauropod dinosaur fromthe Dicraeosauridae family . The only species in the genus is Lingwulong shenqi , which was discovered by a team of researchers in the Yanan Formation in Lingwu , People's Republic of China . Lingwulong is the only known diplodocoid that was found in East Asia. Lingwulong lived from the late Lower Jurassic to the early Middle Jurassic
history
The holotype of Lingwulong shenqi consists of a part of the skull, from the skull , skull and occiput are obtained, as well as from some of the associated teeth.
In total, the remains of about 8-10 specimens were found, from which a largely complete skeleton could be reconstructed.
By the Fund Lingwulongs was the long held theory, the diplodocoidea that due to an inland sea are, they could not cross, could not spread to East Asia, refuted. Now it has to be taken into account that the sauropods had spread over the entire continent of Pangea probably 15 million years earlier than originally assumed before it broke up.
etymology
Lingwulong shenqi was named after the place where it was found Lingwu, the word long from Mandarin , which means dragon , and shenqi , which means something surprising .
literature
- Xing Xu, Paul Upchurch , Philip D. Mannion: A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs in Nature Communication 9: Article number 2700. doi: 10.1038 / s41467-018-05128-1