Outline: a typical sauropod
Anhuilong
"Anhui dragon"
- Lived
- 175 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Mamenchisauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Ren et al. 2018
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
170 million years ago
Field notes
About Anhuilong
What it was like
Anhuilong was a long-necked sauropod from the family of Mamenchisaurus. It is known from bones of a front leg.
Its world
It lived in the Middle Jurassic in what is now eastern China. Its bones come from the Hongqin Formation, where the sauropod Huangshanlong also lived.
How it was found
Ren and colleagues named it in 2018.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Mamenchisauridae
- OmeisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- BellusaurusLate Jurassic
- XinjiangtitanMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AbrosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- TongnanlongLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- UragasaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Zigongosaurussauropod
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X.-X. Ren, J.-D. Huang, and H.-L. You. 2018. The second mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Eastern China. Historical Biology