Outline: a typical sauropod

Hongqin Fm., ChinaNamed 2014

Huangshanlong

"Huangshan dragon"

Lived
175 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods, Mamenchisauridae
Found in
China
Named by
Huang et al. 2014

Where its fossils were found

The evidence

Today

1 find

170 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Field notes

About Huangshanlong

What it was like

Huangshanlong 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 Anhuilong also lived.

How it was found

Huang and colleagues named it in 2014.

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations

Close relatives

Other members of Mamenchisauridae

Sources: WikidataNamed in: J.-D. Huang, H.-L. You, and J.-T. Yang, X.-X. Ren. 2014. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Huangshan, Anhui Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 52(4):390-400