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Fulengia

Carroll & Galton, 1977 foo-LEN-jee-uh Nomen dubium

An anagram of the genus name Lufengosaurus, itself named for the Lufeng Formation of China where the fossils were found.

199.5–192.9 million years ago Sinemurian, Early Jurassic
Early Jurassic stages

Fulengia is a dubious genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China. The type species, F. youngi, was described by Carroll and Galton in 1977. It is a nomen dubium and may be the same animal as Lufengosaurus (from which it is anagrammatized). It was originally thought to be a lizard.

Under dispute

Fulengia youngi was described as a lizard on a tiny skull that Sereno (1991) referred to Prosauropoda indet., making the name a nomen dubium; Galton and Upchurch (2004) list it among the prosauropod nomina dubia.

Species

Fulengia youngi Carroll & Galton, 1977 Nomen dubium

Type species

Named in honor of Dr. C. C. Young (Yang Zhongjian) for work in the Lufeng Basin.

Holotype
CUP 2037 , Field Museum of Natural History
Material
Skull, lower jaws and associated vertebra.
Horizon
Zhangjiawa Member, Lufeng Formation, Sinemurian, Early Jurassic , 199.5–192.9 million years ago
Locality
Ta Ti, Yunnan, China

References

  1. Carroll, R. L.; Galton, P. M. (1977). 'Modern' lizard from the Upper Triassic of China. Nature 266(5599): 252-255. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/266252a0 carroll1977a
  2. Sereno, P. C. (1991). Lesothosaurus, 'fabrosaurids,' and the early evolution of Ornithischia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(2): 168-197. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011386

    Refers the Fulengia skull to Prosauropoda indet. and treats the name as a nomen dubium.

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  3. Galton, P. M.; Upchurch, P. (2004). Prosauropoda. The Dinosauria, Second Edition (Weishampel, D. B.; Dodson, P.; Osmólska, H., eds.) 232-258. University of California Press, Berkeley.

    Assessed Fulengia among basal sauropodomorphs.

    galton2004a
  4. Irmis, R. B.; Knoll, F. (2008). New ornithischian dinosaur material from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 247(1): 117-128. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0247-0117

    Equates the deep red beds holding this material with the Zhangjiawa Member of the Lufeng Formation.

    irmis2008a