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Lufengosaurus huenei

Reptilia - Massospondylidae

Taxonomy
Lufengosaurus huenei was named by Young (1940). Its type specimen is IVPP V15, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shawan, Lufeng, which is in a Hettangian terrestrial sandstone in the Lufeng Formation of China.

It was recombined as Massospondylus huenei by Cooper (1981).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Lufengosaurus huenei Young
1941Lufengosaurus huenei Bien p. 174
1941Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 3
1942Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 64
1944Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 4
1946Lufengosaurus hueni Young p. 5
1947Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 1
1951Lufengosaurus huenei Young p. 50
1961Lufengosaurus huenei Hu pp. 278-279
1964Lufengosaurus huenei Tatarinov p. 542
1965Lufengosaurus huenei Rozhdestvensky
1965Lufengosaurus hueni Simmons p. 61
1967Lufengosaurus huenei Charig p. 712
1970Lufengosaurus huenei Demathieu p. 153
1970Lufengosaurus huenei Steel p. 54
1976Lufengosaurus huenei Galton and Cluver p. 147
1977Lufengosaurus huenei Rozhdestvensky p. 112
1979Lufengosaurus huenei Jain et al. p. 206
1981Massospondylus huenei Cooper p. 804
1992Lufengosaurus huenei Dong p. 163
2003Lufengosaurus huenei Yates p. 322
2004Lufengosaurus huenei Galton and Upchurch p. 234
2005Lufengosaurus huenei Barrett et al. p. 807
2007Lufengosaurus huenei Barrett et al. p. 321
2007Lufengosaurus huenei Galton p. 518
2007Lufengosaurus huenei Lü et al. p. 14
2007Lufengosaurus huenei Smith and Pol p. 660
2007Lufengosaurus huenei Upchurch et al. p. 76
2009Lufengosaurus huenei Xing et al. p. 17
2010Lufengosaurus huenei Langer et al. p. 90
2010Lufengosaurus huenei Reisz et al. p. 1664
2010Lufengosaurus huenei Sekiya and Dong
2011Lufengosaurus huenei Apaldetti et al. p. 4
2012Lufengosaurus huenei Barrett and Xu p. 156
2015Lufengosaurus huenei McCrea et al. p. 238
2016Lufengosaurus huenei Xing et al. p. 730
2020Lufengosaurus huenei Peyre de Fabrègues et al. p. 11
2021Lufengosaurus huenei Peyre de Fabrègues et al. p. 321
2022Lufengosaurus huenei Yao et al. p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
familyMassospondylidae
genusLufengosaurus
specieshuenei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Lufengosaurus huenei Young 1940
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C.-C. Young 1951Skull less elongated, ca. 5. 5 length of the anterior caudal vertebrae. Nasal opening triangular. Anteorbital opening short and high, rather small. Orbit rounded and large. Upper temporal opening points upwards. Teeth weakly compressed and serrated of very generalized type. Neck very long, proportion to dorsal vertebrae ca. 0.88. Neck and dorsal vertebrae are very strongly built. Tail is massive. Vertebrae number: neck, 10; dorsal, 14?; 6acrum, 5 and tail 45 or one or so more. Mt. Ill long. Anterior limbs with short hand and foot with the first claw are especially strong.
P. M. Barrett et al. 2005cranial features only). Lufengosaurus can be diagnosed on the basis of the following autapomorphies: distinct tuberosity on lateral surface of ascending process of maxilla; low boss on central portion of jugal at junction of the three jugal processes; prominent boss on dorsal surface of rostrolateral process of parietal; and presence of ridge on caudal part of lateral surface of maxilla. In addition, Lufengosaurus possesses a unique combination of character states not present in any other basal sauropodomorph (see comparative comments, below).