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The Lufeng Formation (formerly Lower Lufeng Series) is a Lower Jurassic sedimentary rock formation found in Yunnan, China. It has two units: the lower Dull Purplish Beds/ Shawan Member are of Hettangian age, and Dark Red Beds/ Zhangjia'ao Member are of Sinemurian age.Luo, Z., and X.-C. Wu. 1994. The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China; pp. 251–270 in N. C. Fraser and H.-D.Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, New York It is known for its of early . The Dull Purplish Beds have yielded the possible therizinosaur Eshanosaurus, the possible theropod Lukousaurus, and the "" sinensis/" itemprop="url" title="Wiki: Gyposaurus">Gyposaurus, Lufengosaurus, Jingshanosaurus, and Yunnanosaurus. Dinosaurs discovered in the Dark Red Beds include the theropod Sinosaurus triassicus, the "prosauropods" "Gyposaurus", Lufengosaurus, and Yunnanosaurus, indeterminate remains of , and the early thyreophora Bienosaurus and Tatisaurus.Weishampel, et al. 2004.
| ClevosaurusJones MEH. 2006 The Early Jurassic clevosaurs from China (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). New Mex. Museum Nat. Hist. Sci. Bull. 37, 548–562. | Indeterminate | Yunnan | Partial skulls and jaws. | The three named species do not display any Autapomorphy characters and should be considered indeterminate within the genus. Only record of Rhynchocephalia from Asia. |
| Dianchungosaurus"48.3 Yunnan, People's Republic of China; 2. Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Series," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 534. | D. lufengensis | Yunnan | Dark Red Beds | Formerly considered an ornithopod dinosaur. | |
| DianosuchusYoung, C.-C. (1982). On a primitive crocodile from Lufeng, Yunnnan. Selected Works on Yang Zhungijang. Science Press, Beijing pp. 26–28. | D. changchiawaensis | Lufeng, Yunnan | Dark Red Beds | ||
| MicrochampsaYoung, C.C., 1951, "The Lufeng saurischian fauna in China", Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, 13: 1-96 | M. scutata | Dahuangtian locality | Lower Red Beds | iIncomplete skeleton consisting of cervical and anterior dorsal vertebrae as well as ribs and three rows of dorsal osteoderms | |
| Phyllodontosuchus | P. lufengensis | Dawa, Yunnan | Dark Red Beds | BVP568-L12, a crushed skull | A potential non-carnivorous crocodrylomorph |
| Platyognathus | P. hsui | Lufeng, Yunnan | Zhangjiawa Member | IVPP V8266, rostral portion of a skull missing the dorsal bones and with articulated incomplete mandible; CVEB 21301, a nearly complete skull with articulated mandible, articulated with the anterior 17 vertebrae and associated dorsal osteoderms; part of the right scapulocoracoid; the left humerus; the right femur and proximal tibia and fibula | The oldest Gobiosuchoidea |
| Strigosuchus | S. licinus | Lufeng, Yunnan | Zhangjia'ao Member | FMNH CUP 2082 |
| Bienosaurus| style="background:#E6E6E6;" | B. lufengensis| style="background:#E6E6E6;" | Yunnan| style="background:#E6E6E6;" | Dark Red Beds| style="background:#E6E6E6;" | A right "dentary with teeth,""Table 15.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 336. with additional cranial fragments such as a partial frontal. These specimens are catalogued as IVPP V 9612. The dentary preserves 11 teeth or roots with two additional empty alveoli.| style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |
| Tatisaurus | T. oehleri | Yunnan | Dark Red Beds | "Isolated dentary." |
| Chuxiongosaurus | C. lufengensis | Yunnan | "Skull'' | ||
| Gyposaurus | G. sinensis | Yunnan | "Two skeletons, one with partial skull, two partial skeletons, three skull fragments, adult.""Table 12.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 234. | ||
| Fulengia|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | F. youngi|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | Yunnan|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | "Skull.""Table 12.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 236.|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |
| Jingshanosaurus | J. xinwaensis | Yunnan | "Complete skeleton with skull, adult." | ||
| "Kunmingosaurus" | "K. wusdingensis" | Yunnan | nomen nudum | ||
| Lishulong | L. wangi | Yunnan | Skull and cervical vertebrae 2–10 | ||
| Lufengosaurus | L. huenei | Yunnan | "(including Gyposaurus sinensis, L. magnus)" | ||
| L. magnus | Yunnan | ||||
| Tawasaurus|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | T. minor|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | Yunnan|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | ||
| Xingxiulong | X. chengi | Yunnan | |||
| X. yueorum | Yunnan |
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| Yizhousaurus | Y. sunae | Yunnan |
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| Yunnanosaurus | Y. huangi | Yunnan | "More than twenty partial to complete skeletons, two skulls, juvenile to adult." | ||
| Y. robustus|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | Yunnan|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" |
| Eshanosaurus | E. deguchiianus | Yunnan | "Dentary.""Table 7.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 152. | Possible therizinosaur| rowspan="99" | |
| Lukousaurus"48.3 Yunnan, People's Republic of China; 1. Dull Purplish Beds of the Lower Lufeng Series and 2. Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Series" in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 534. | L. yini | Yunnan |
| Possible crocodylomorph | |
| Sinosaurus | S. triassicus | Yunnan |
| Dilophosaurus sinensis specimen
Now included in Sinosaurus | |
| Panguraptor | P. lufengensis | Yunnan | A Coelophysidae |
| Bienotherium |
| A Tritylodontidae | |||
| Dianzhongia | D. longirostrata | A tritylodontid | |||
| Hadrocodium | H. wui | Yunnan |
| One of the oldest and smallest known. Indicates a correlation between the separation of the middle ear bones from the mandible and the expanded brain vault in early mammals. | |
| Lufengia | L. delicata | A tritylodontid | |||
| Morganucodon |
| Zhangjiawa Member ( M. heikuopengensis) Shawan Member ( M. oehleri) | A | ||
| Sinoconodon | S. rigneyi | Zhangjiawa Member | A mammaliamorph closely related to Mammaliaformes | ||
| Yunnanodon | Y. brevirostre | Yunnan |
| A tritylodontid |
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