Reptilia - Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Full reference: X. Xu, P. Upchurch, P. D. Mannion, P. M. Barrett, O. R. Regalado-Fernandez, J. Mo, J. Ma and H. Liu. 2018. A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs. Nature Communications 9:2700:1-9
Parent taxon: Dicraeosauridae according to J. A. Whitlock and J. A. Wilson Mantilla 2020
See also Gallina et al. 2019, Mannion et al. 2019 and Xu et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Amargasaurus, Amargatitanis, Bajadasaurus, Brachytrachelopan, Dicraeosaurus, Dyslocosaurus, Kaatedocus, Pilmatueia, Smitanosaurus, Suuwassea, Tharosaurus
Subtaxa: Lingwulong shenqi
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Lingwu Geopark (Jurassic of China)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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