The newly discovered species, named Lishulong wangi, is an early relative of sauropods. The dinosaur roamed the Earth during the Early Jurassic period, over 200 million years ago. Growing up to 33 ...
Non-sauropod sauropodomorphs, to which L. wangi belongs, were among the dominant medium-to-large herbivores during the Early Jurassic period. Unlike the massive, slow-moving sauropods that succeeded ...
Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Province’s Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The group determined the skull belonged to a sauropodomorph—a group of dinosaurs that also ...