Describer

Caroll & Galton, 1977

Time

Jurassic Early Hettangian Sinemurian Pliensbachian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation [= Fengjiahe Formation], Yunnan, China

Info

Genus

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)

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