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Fulengia

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Carroll Fulengia Galton Lufeng

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Fulengia is a dubious genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China."48.3 Yunnan, People's Republic of China; 2. Lufeng Formation," in David Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 534. The type species, F. youngi, was described by Carroll and Peter Galton in 1977.Carroll, R.L. and Galton, P.M. (1977) "A 'modern' lizard from the Upper Triassic of China". It is a nomen dubium and may be the same animal as Lufengosaurus (from which it is ). It was originally thought to be a lizard.

History

The holotype of Fulengia (CUP 2037), a mineralised lump containing a small skull, just under long, a single vertebra, and a jumble of unidentifiable bones, was originally catalogued as a juvenile specimen of Yunnanosaurus huangi by Simmons in 1965,Simmons, D.J. (1965) "The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China". who reckoned they were " coprolite in origin", but there is no way to accurately prove this. Twelve years later Carroll and Galton reclassified it as a lizard of Late Triassic age and named the species Fulengia youngi.

The holotype remains, and two other nodules (CUP 2038a and CUP 2038b)R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution 1-698 from the same site were also found during reinspection of the Catholic University of Peking collections in 1989. In 1989, Evans and Milner classified Fulengia as an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph.S.E. Evans and A.R. Milner (1989) " Fulengia, a supposed early lizard reinterpreted as a prosauropod dinosaur".

Description

It was around long and around in weight when fully grown.Yang, Z. (1982b). On a new genus of dinosaur from Lufeng, Yunnan. Selected works of Yang, Z. p. 38-42. Science Press, Beijing (中文). Its height was unknown, and it had a skull size of around long.