Lishulong wangi
Lishulong is a genus of sauropodiform dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Toarcian) Lufeng Formation of China. The type and only species is Lishulong wangi.

Q.-N. Zhang, L. Jia, T. Wang, Y.-G. Zhang, H.-L. You · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LishulongPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 174.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lishulong wangi on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Lishulong wangi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lishulong wangi and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Lishulong wangi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lishulong wangi, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lishulong wangi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Q.-N. Zhang, L. Jia, T. Wang, Y.-G. Zhang, H.-L. You
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lishulong wangi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lishulong”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLishulong through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang et al. 2024