Lufengosaurus

Lufengosaurus is a genus of massospondylid dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China.

Lufengosaurus

Jonathan Chen · 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
MassospondylidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Length
6 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 27 of 28 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–200 Mya — about 3 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 4 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 4 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 4 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 4 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 4 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 4 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya174.7 Mya202.1 Mya167.5 Mya

28 occurrences of Lufengosaurus 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

28 occurrences

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

2 formations

Lufeng — 25.17°N, 102.08°ELufeng — 24.96°N, 102.08°EZiliujing — 29.39°N, 104.82°E

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The named rock units Lufengosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lufengosaurus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Lufengosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lufengosaurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

12 references

Each of the 28 occurrences 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lufengosaurus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lufengosaurus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMassospondylidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1940