Qijianglong
Name:
Qijianglong.
Phonetic: Ke-je-ang-long.
Named By: L. Xing, T. Miyashita, J.
Zhang, D. Li, Y, Ye, T, Sekiya, F. Wang &
P. Currie - 2015.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Mamenchisauridae.
Species: Q. guokr (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated to be about 15 meters
long. However this is of a juvenile, fully grown adults would have
been larger.
Known locations: China - Suining Formation.
Time period: Oxfordian? of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeletal remains.
Qijianglong is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the late Jurassic. At the time of writing the genus is only known from a single juvenile, yet this juvenile is already fifteen meters long. It is uncertain how big Qijianglong could grow, but at fifteen meters just for a juvenile, larger adults may have approached or even exceeded twenty meters. As a mamenchisaurid sauropod, Qijianglong would have had a proportionately long neck.
Further reading
- A new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China and the
diversity, distribution, and relationships of mamenchisaurids. -
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. - L. Xing, T.
Miyashita, J. Zhang, D. Li, Y, Ye, T, Sekiya, F.
Wang & P. Currie - 2015.
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