Yunnanosaurus huangi Young 1940 (sauropodomorph)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: C.-C. Young. 1940. Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20(3-4):235-239

Belongs to Yunnanosaurus according to P. M. Barrett et al. 2007

See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Barrett and Xu 2012, Bien 1941, Charig 1967, Dong 1992, Galton 2007, Galton and Cluver 1976, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Hu 1961, Langer et al. 2010, Lü et al. 2007, Moro et al. 2020, Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2021, Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2020, Rozhdestvensky 1965, Simmons 1965, Steel 1970, Upchurch et al. 2007, Xing et al. 2009, Xing et al. 2016, Xing et al. 2016, Yao et al. 2022, Yates 2003, Young 1940, Young 1942, Young 1942, Young 1944, Young 1946, Young 1947 and Young 1951

Sister taxa: Yunnanosaurus robustus, Yunnanosaurus youngi

Type specimen: IVPP AS V.20 (NGMJ 004546), a skeleton. Its type locality is Huangchiatien, Lufeng, which is in a Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Lufeng Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (7 collections)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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