Xiangyunloong fengming

Xiangyunloong is a genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur known from fossils found in the Early Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation of Yunnan, China. The type and only species is Xiangyunloong fengming.

Xiangyunloong fengming

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiangyunloongPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 27 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrence202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Xiangyunloong fengming on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Fengjiahe — 25.33°N, 100.76°E

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The named rock units Xiangyunloong fengming has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Xiangyunloong fengming and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Xiangyunloong fengming and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Xiangyunloong fengming, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Xiangyunloong fengming

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Xiangyunloong fengming was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itXiangyunloong through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hu et al. 2026