Yantaloong
| Yantaloong Temporal range:
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| Speculative life restoration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Turiasauria |
| Genus: | †Yantaloong Zhang et al., 2026 |
| Species: | †Y. lini
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| Binomial name | |
| †Yantaloong lini Zhang et al., 2026
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Yantaloong is an extinct genus of eusauropod dinosaur known from the Middle Jurassic Zhanghe Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Yantaloong lini, known from six presacral vertebrae. Phylogenetic analyses place Yantaloong as a close relative of Jobaria and Lapparentosaurus. In one analysis version, these taxa were placed as the sister taxon to a clade of 'traditional turiasaurs', forming a broader Turiasauria than recognized previously. If it is a turiasaur, it would be the first one known from East Asia.