Outline: a typical sauropod
Yongjinglong
- Lived
- 126 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Li et al. 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
120 million years ago
Field notes
About Yongjinglong
What it was like
Yongjinglong was a large sauropod, a long-necked plant eater related to Euhelopus. It is known from teeth, back bones, ribs and a shoulder blade.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now China. It shared its world with the sauropod Taohelong.
How it was found
Li and colleagues named Yongjinglong in 2014.
Close relatives
Other members of Euhelopodidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: L.-G. Li, D.-Q. Li, and H.-L. You, P. Dodson. 2014. A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, China. PLoS ONE 9(1):e85979:1-22