Genus
Valid Extinct

Lufengosaurus

Young 1940
Etymology Reptile de Lu-Feng

Lufengosaurus is a genus of massospondylid dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
28
Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
Lufengosaurus
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Holotype skeleton (IVPP V15) of Lufengosaurus huenei on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Massospondylidae Family
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Lufengosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 28 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
28
Geological formations
Lufeng
26
Ziliujing
1
Temporal distribution
Aalenian (174.7–170.9 Ma)
1
Pliensbachian (192.9–184.2 Ma)
1
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
21
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
5
Species (3)
Lufengosaurus changduensis 201 Ma
Lufengosaurus huenei 201 Ma
Lufengosaurus magnus 201 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1940. Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20(3-4):235-239
Bibliography (12)
L. Xing, B. M. Rothschild, and H. Ran, T. Miyashita, W. S. Persons IV, T. Sekiya, J. Zhang, T. Wang, Z. Dong. 2015. Vertebral fusion in two Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):643-649 DOI ↗
R. R. Reisz, T. D. Huang, and E. M. Roberts, S. Peng, C. Sullivan, K. Stein, A. R. H. LeBlanc, D. Shieh, R. Chang, C. Chiang, C. Yang, S. Zhong. 2013. Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains. Nature 496:210-214 DOI ↗
T. Sekiya and Z. Dong. 2010. A new juvenile specimen of Lufengosaurus huenei Young, 1941 (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, southwest China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(1):11-21 DOI ↗
G. Peng, Y. Ye, and Y. Gao, C. Shu, S. Jiang. 2005. Zìgòng dìqū zhū luó jì kǒnglóng dòngwù qún [Jurassic Dinosaur Faunas in Zigong].
X. Zhao. 1985. [The Jurassic Reptilia]. [The Jurassic System of China. Stratigraphy of China, No. 11]
R. L. Carroll and P. M. Galton. 1977. 'Modern' lizard from the Upper Triassic of China. Nature 266(5599):252-255 DOI ↗
A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1965. Vosractnay ismenchivosty i nekotorie voprosi sistematiki dinosavrov Asii [Growth changes in Asian dinosaurs and some problems of their taxonomy]. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 1965(3):95-109
D. J. Simmons. 1965. The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. Fieldiana: Geology 15(1):1-93 DOI ↗
S.-Y. Hu. 1961. [Some reptilian fossils from Lufeng, China]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5(3):278-283
C.-C. Young. 1948. Further notes on Gyposaurus sinensis Young. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(1-2):91-103
C.-C. Young. 1947. On Lufengosaurus magnus Young (sp. nov.) and additional finds of Lufengosaurus huenei Young. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 12:1-53
C.-C. Young. 1940. Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20(3-4):235-239