| Description | Lufengosaurus (Chinese: 祿豐龍 or 禄丰龙, meaning "Lufeng lizard") is a genus of massospondylid dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China. The dinosaur made international headlines in 2017 when Nature Communications reported scientists' discovery of 195-million-year-old collagen protein in the rib of a Lufengosarus fossil.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Lufengosaurus Young, 1941 |
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| Name Published In | Palaeont. sinica, (N. S.) C 7 (121) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Young, 1941 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | implied | Romer, 1956 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated without evidence | Huene, 1958 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Huene, 1959 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated without evidence | Simmons, 1965 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | implied | Romer, 1966 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Steel, 1970 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated with evidence | Galton, 1976 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Galton and Cluver, 1976 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Thecodontosauridae | stated without evidence | Rozhdestvensky, 1977 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Anderson and Cruickshank, 1978 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Massospondylus | stated without evidence | Cooper, 1981 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauria | stated without evidence | Zhao, 1983 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Attridge et al., 1985 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Anchisauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated without evidence | Dong, 1992 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauridae | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1998 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated without evidence | Barrett et al., 2005 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Massospondylidae | stated without evidence | Smith and Pol, 2007 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Plateosauria | stated with evidence | Upchurch et al., 2007 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated with evidence | Martínez, 2009 | | Lufengosaurus | genus | belongs to Massospondylidae | stated with evidence | Apaldetti et al., 2011 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 201 - 199 Ma
Early Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 199 - 174 Ma
Jurassic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Diapsida) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | C.-C. Young. 1940. Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20(3-4):235-239 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufengosaurus |
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| Young C.-C. (1940) Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils, Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20 3-4, 235-239 |
| Romer A. S. (1956) , Osteology of the Reptiles, University of Chicago Press, 1-772 |
| Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589 |
| Simmons D. J. (1965) The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, Fieldiana: Geology 15 1, 1-93 |
| Romer A. S. (1966) , Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edition, 1-468 |
| Steel R. (1970) Part 14. Saurischia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-87 |
| Galton P. M. (1976) Prosauropod dinosaurs (Reptilia: Saurischia) of North America, Postilla 169, 1-98 |
| Rozhdestvensky A. K. (1977) The study of dinosaurs in Asia, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20, 102-119 |
| Heerden J. v. (1979) The morphology and taxonomy of Euskelosaurus (Reptilia: Saurischia; Late Triassic) from South Africa, Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum 4 2, 23-84 |
| Zhao X. (1983) Phylogeny and evolutionary stages of Dinosauria, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 28 1-2, 295-306 |
| Attridge J., Crompton A. W., et al (1985) The southern African Liassic prosauropod Massospondylus discovered in North America, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5 2, 128-132 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Dong Z. (1992) Dinosaurian Faunas of China, China Ocean Press, Beijing, 1-188 |
| Sereno P. C. (1998) A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 1, 41-83 |
| Sereno P. C. (1999) The evolution of dinosaurs, Science 284, 2137-2147 |
| Galton P. M., Upchurch P. (2004) Prosauropoda, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 232-258 |
| Smith N. D., Pol D. (2007) Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 4, 657-674 |
| Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2007) A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs, Special Papers in Palaeontology 77, 57-90 |
| Martínez R. N. (2009) Adeopapposaurus mognai, gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha), with comments on adaptations of basal Sauropodomorpha, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 1, 142-164 doi:10.1671/039.029.0102 |
| Apaldetti C., Martinez R. N., et al (2011) A new basal sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina, PLoS ONE 6 11, e26964:1-19 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964 |
| Novas F. E., Ezcurra M. D., et al (2011) New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of Central India, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101, 333-349 doi:10.1017/S1755691011020093 |
| Apaldetti C., Pol D., et al (2013) The postcranial anatomy of Coloradisaurus brevis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic and its phylogenetic implications, Palaeontology 56 2, 277-301 |
| Otero A., Pol D. (2013) Postcranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 5, 1138-1168 |
| McPhee B. W., Choiniere J. N., et al (2015) A second species of Eucnemesaurus Van Hoepen, 1920 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new information on the diversity and evolution of the sauropodomorph fauna of South Africa's lower Elliot Formation (latest Triassic), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 5, e980504:1-24 doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.980504 |
| Chapelle K. E. J., Barrett P. M., et al (2019) Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus, PeerJ 7, e7240:1-59 doi:10.7717/peerj.7240 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Palaeont. sinica, (N. S.) C 7 (121) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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