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Lufengosaurus huenei ✝

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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.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufengosaurus_huenei, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4967245	https://www.gbif.org/species/4967245
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	56597	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=56597

Rank

species

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus : Lufengosaurus huenei

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus : Lufengosaurus huenei

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Eusaurischia	Padian et al. 1999
-	Sauropodomorpha
-	Massopoda	Yates 2007
family	Massospondylidae	Huene 1914
genus	Lufengosaurus	Young 1940
species	Lufengosaurus huenei	Young 1940

Generic Name

Lufengosaurus

Scientific Name

Lufengosaurus huenei (Young, 1940)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated without evidence	Bien, 1941
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated with evidence	Tatarinov, 1964
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated without evidence	Simmons, 1965
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Massospondylus	stated without evidence	Cooper, 1981
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated without evidence	Dong, 1992
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated with evidence	Galton and Upchurch, 2004
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated without evidence	Barrett et al., 2005
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated with evidence	Sekiya and Dong, 2010
Lufengosaurus huenei	species	belongs to Lufengosaurus	stated without evidence	Langer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 199 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

199 - 174 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufengosaurus_huenei

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Lufengosaurus magnus Young, 1947	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus : *Lufengosaurus magnus*
Gyposaurus sinensis (Young, 1940)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus : *Gyposaurus sinensis*
Anchisaurus sinensis (Young, 1940)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus : *Anchisaurus sinensis*
Massospondylus huenei (Young, 1940)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Lufengosaurus : *Massospondylus huenei*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1940	Lufengosaurus huenei Young
1940	Gyposaurus sinensis Young p. 237
1941	Gyposaurus sinensis Bien p. 174
1941	Lufengosaurus huenei Bien p. 174
1941	Lufengosaurus magnus Bien p. 174
1941	Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 3
1941	Lufengosaurus magnus Young p. 174
1941	Gyposaurus sinensis Young p. 205
1941	Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 206
1942	Gyposaurus sinensis Young p. 64
1942	Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 64
1942	Lufengosaurus magnus Young p. 238
1944	Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 4
1944	Lufengosaurus magnus Young p. 4
1946	Gyposaurus sinensis Young p. 5
1946	Lufengosaurus hueni Young p. 5
1946	Lufengosaurus magnus Young p. 5
1947	Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 1
1947	Lufengosaurus magnus Young p. 1
1947	Gyposaurus sinensis Young p. 46
1948	Gyposaurus sinensis Young p. 101
1961	Gyposaurus sinensis Hu p. 278
1961	Lufengosaurus huenei Hu pp. 278-279
1961	Lufengosaurus magnus Hu p. 279
1964	Lufengosaurus huenei Tatarinov p. 542
1965	Lufengosaurus huenei Rozhdestvensky
1965	Gyposaurus sinensis Simmons p. 60
1965	Lufengosaurus hueni Simmons p. 61
1965	Lufengosaurus magnus Simmons p. 62
1966	Lufengosaurus magnus Young p. 65
1970	Lufengosaurus huenei Demathieu p. 153
1970	Gyposaurus sinensis Steel p. 49

Year	Name and Author
1970	Lufengosaurus huenei Steel p. 54
1970	Lufengosaurus magnus Steel p. 54
1973	Gyposaurus sinensis Benedetto
1976	Lufengosaurus huenei Galton and Cluver p. 147
1977	Lufengosaurus huenei Rozhdestvensky p. 112
1979	Lufengosaurus huenei Jain et al. p. 206
1981	Massospondylus huenei Cooper p. 804
1984	Lufengosaurus magnus Dong p. 313
1992	Anchisaurus sinensis Dong p. 163
1992	Lufengosaurus huenei Dong p. 163
1992	Lufengosaurus magnus Dong p. 163
2003	Lufengosaurus huenei Yates p. 322
2004	Lufengosaurus huenei Galton and Upchurch p. 234
2005	Lufengosaurus huenei Barrett et al. p. 807
2007	Lufengosaurus huenei Barrett et al. p. 321
2007	Gyposaurus sinensis Galton p. 518
2007	Lufengosaurus huenei Galton p. 518
2007	Gyposaurus sinensis Lu et al. p. 13
2007	Lufengosaurus huenei Lu et al. p. 14
2007	Lufengosaurus huenei Smith and Pol p. 660
2007	Gyposaurus sinensis Upchurch et al. p. 76
2007	Lufengosaurus huenei Upchurch et al. p. 76
2009	Gyposaurus sinensis Xing et al. p. 17
2009	Lufengosaurus huenei Xing et al. p. 17
2009	Lufengosaurus magnus Xing et al. p. 17
2010	Lufengosaurus huenei Langer et al. p. 90
2010	Lufengosaurus huenei Reisz et al. p. 1664
2010	Lufengosaurus huenei Sekiya and Dong
2011	Lufengosaurus huenei Apaldetti et al. p. 4
2012	Lufengosaurus huenei Barrett and Xu p. 156
2015	Lufengosaurus huenei McCrea et al. p. 238

References

Young C.-C. (1940) Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils, Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20 3-4, 235-239

Young C.-C. (1941) Gyposaurus sinensis Young (sp. nov.) a new Prosauropoda from the Upper Triassic beds at Lufeng, Yunnan, Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 21 2-4, 205-252

Young C.-C. (1942) Yunnanosaurus huangi Young (gen. et sp. nov.), a new Prosauropoda from the Red Beds at Lufeng, Yunnan, Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 22 1-2, 63-104

Young C.-C. (1944) On a supposed new pseudosuchian from Upper Triassic saurischian-bearing Red Beds of Lufeng, Yunnan, China, American Museum Novitates 1264, 1-4

Young C.-C. (1947) On Lufengosaurus magnus Young (sp. nov.) and additional finds of Lufengosaurus huenei Young, Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 12, 1-53

Young C.-C. (1948) Further notes on Gyposaurus sinensis Young, Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28 1-2, 91-103

Hu S.-Y. (1961) [Some reptilian fossils from Lufeng, China], Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5 3, 278-283

Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589

Rozhdestvensky A. K. (1965) Vosractnay ismenchivosty i nekotorie voprosi sistematiki dinosavrov Asii [Growth changes in Asian dinosaurs and some problems of their taxonomy], Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 1965 3, 95-109

Simmons D. J. (1965) The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, Fieldiana: Geology 15 1, 1-93

Young C.-C. (1966) On a new locality of the Lufengosaurus of Yunnan, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 10 1, 64-67

Demathieu G. R. (1970) Empreintes de Pas de Vertébrés du Trias de la Bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central (Vertebrate Footprints from the Triassic of the Northeast Border of the Massif Central], Cahiers de Paléontologie, 1-211

Steel R. (1970) Part 14. Saurischia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-87

Benedetto J. L. (1973) Herrerasauridae, nueva familia de saurisquios triasicos [Herrerasauridae, new family of Triassic saurischians], Ameghiniana 10 1, 89-102

Rozhdestvensky A. K. (1977) The study of dinosaurs in Asia, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20, 102-119

Cooper M. R. (1981) The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance, Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6 10, 689-840

Dong Z. (1992) Dinosaurian Faunas of China, China Ocean Press, Beijing, 1-188

Yates A. M. (2003) The species taxonomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Löwenstein Formation (Norian, Late Triassic) of Germany, Palaeontology 46 2, 317-337

Galton P. M., Upchurch P. (2004) Prosauropoda, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 232-258

Barrett P. M., Upchurch P., et al (2007) The skull of Yunnanosaurus huangi Young, 1942 (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Lufeng Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Yunnan, China, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150, 319-341

Galton P. M. (2007) Notes on the remains of archosaurian reptiles, mostly basal sauropodomorph dinosaurs, from the 1834 fissure fill (Rhaetian, Upper Triassic) at Clifton in Bristol, southwest England, Revue de Paléobiologie 26 2, 505-591

Lu J, Li T., et al (2007) New yunnnosaurid dinosaur (Dinosauria, Prosauropoda) From the Middle Jurassic Zhanghe Formation of Yuanmou, Yunnan province of China, Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 6, 1-15

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

Xing L.-d., Harris J. D., et al (2009) Discovery of dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China and new observations on Changpeipus, Geological Bulletin of China 28 1, 16-29

Langer M. C., Ezcurra M. D., et al (2010) The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs, Biological Reviews 85, 55-110 doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00094.x

Reisz R. R., Evans D. C., et al (2010) Embryonic skeletal anatomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Massospondylus from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 6, 1653-1665

Sekiya T., Dong Z. (2010) A new juvenile specimen of Lufengosaurus huenei Young, 1941 (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, southwest China, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84 1, 11-21 doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00165.x

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

Barrett P. M., Xu X. (2012) The enigmatic reptile Pachysuchus imperfectus Young, 1951 from the Lower Lufeng Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Yunnan, China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50 2, 151-159

McCrea R. T., Tanke D. H., et al (2015) Vertebrate ichnopathology: pathologies inferred from dinosaur tracks and trackways from the Mesozoic, Ichnos 22 3–4, 235-260 doi:10.1080/10420940.2015.1064408

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