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YONGJINGLONG
(yong-jing-long)
meaning: "Yongjing dragon"
Yongjinglong
Named By: LiinGuo Li, DainQing Li, HaiinLu You & Peter Dodson in 2014
Time Period: Early Cretaceous
Location: China, Gansu province
Size: Uncertain. The holotype fossils are from an incomplete individual, but one that is estimated to have been about 15-18 meters long. Evidence suggests however that this specimen is of a juvenile or subadult and not a fully grown adult, therefor the true adult size remains unknown
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Teeth and partial remains including vertebrae, rib, ulna, radius, coracoid and scapula of a juvenile or subadult
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Sauropoda | Titanosauria |
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Yongjinglong is an extinct genus of herbivorous derived titanosaur sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Lanzhou-Minhe Basin of Gansu Province, China. It contains a single species, Yongjinglong datangi.

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