Describer

Young, 1941

Time

?Triassic Late Jurassic Early Jurassic Middle ?Rhaetian Hettangian Sinemurian Pliensbachian Toarcian Aalenian Bajocian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation [= Fengjiahe Formation], Dull Purplish Beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan; Zhenzhunchong Formation, Sichuan, China

Info

Genus - Typespecies - Skull

Lufengosaurus hunei (Young, 1941) > Lufengosaurus magnus (Young, 1947) Gyposaurus sinensis (Young, 1941) Fulengia youngi (Caroll & Galton, 1977)

Lufengosaurus hunei (Young, 1941) > Tawasaurus minor (Young, 1982) >> Lufengocephalus tawae (Young, 1974)

More than 30 fragmentary to complete skeletons, juvenile to adult.

Lufengosaurus had distinctive skull bones but broadly resembled its European counterpart Plateosaurus. More than 30 whole or partial Lufengosaurus skeletons are known.