Lingwulong
| Lingwulong Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
| Skeletal reconstruction and exemplar skeletal remains of L. shenqi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
| Genus: | †Lingwulong Xu et al., 2018 |
| Species: | †L. shenqi
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Lingwulong shenqi Xu et al., 2018
| |
Lingwulong is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Lingwu, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China. The type and only species is L. shenqi, known from several partial skeletons. It is one of the earliest neosauropods ever discovered, as well as the only definitive diplodocoid from east Asia.