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Lufengosaurus

Reptilia - Massospondylidae

Taxonomy

Lufengosaurus was named by Young (1940).

It was synonymized subjectively with Massospondylus by Cooper (1981).

It was assigned to Prosauropoda by Huene (1958), Simmons (1965); to Thecodontosauridae by Rozhdestvensky (1977); to Plateosauria by Zhao (1983); to Anchisauridae by Carroll (1988); to Plateosauridae by Young (1941), Young (1951), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Galton (1976), Galton and Cluver (1976), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Heerden (1979), Attridge et al. (1985), Battail (1986), Dong (1992), Padian (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Peng et al. (2005); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007); to Prosauropoda by Barrett et al. (2005), Martínez (2009); and to Massospondylidae by Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015), Chapelle et al. (2019).

Species

L. changduensis, L. huenei, L. magnus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1940	Lufengosaurus Young
1941	Lufengosaurus Young p. 3
1951	Lufengosaurus Young p. 50
1956	Lufengosaurus Romer p. 618
1958	Lufengosaurus Huene p. 205
1959	Lufengosaurus Huene p. 120
1964	Lufengosaurus Tatarinov p. 542
1965	Lufengosaurus Simmons p. 61
1966	Lufengosaurus Romer p. 370
1967	Lufengosaurus Charig p. 712
1970	Lufengosaurus Steel p. 54
1976	Lufengosaurus Galton p. 89
1976	Lufengosaurus Galton and Cluver p. 147
1977	Lufengosaurus Rozhdestvensky p. 112
1978	Lufengosaurus Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31
1979	Lufengosaurus Heerden
1983	Lufengosaurus Zhao p. 302
1985	Lufengosaurus Attridge et al. p. 128
1986	Lufengosaurus Battail p. 49
1988	Lufengosaurus Carroll
1992	Lufengosaurus Dong p. 163
1997	Lufengosaurus Padian p. 534
1998	Lufengosaurus Sereno p. 71 fig. 7
1999	Lufengosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2004	Lufengosaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 234 fig. 12.11
2005	Lufengosaurus Barrett et al. p. 807
2005	Lufengosaurus Peng et al.
2007	Lufengosaurus Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7
2007	Lufengosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2009	Lufengosaurus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22
2010	Lufengosaurus Yates p. 750
2011	Lufengosaurus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13
2011	Lufengosaurus Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4
2013	Lufengosaurus Apaldetti et al.
2013	Lufengosaurus Otero and Pol
2015	Lufengosaurus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12
2019	Lufengosaurus Chapelle et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Eusaurischia
—	Sauropodomorpha	(Huene 1932)
—	Massopoda
family	Massospondylidae
genus	Lufengosaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Lufengosaurus Young 1940

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†Lufengosaurus changduensis Zhao 1985

†Lufengosaurus huenei Young 1940

†Lufengosaurus magnus Young 1941

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
C.-C. Young 1951	From large to gigantic size plateosauridae, Prosauropoda. Skull small. Teeth,, with short crown and long strong root. They are weakly spatulated and with coarse anterior and posterior serrations. Vertebrae number: neck, 10$ dorsal 14?; sacrum, 5 and caudal 45 or more. Pectoral girdle with well ossified sternum. Pubes weakly constructed. Tibia comparatively short. Mt. Ill is rather long. Anterior limbs are very short. Hand and foot with the firet claw are especially strong.
P. M. Barrett et al. 2005	(cranial features only). Lufengosaurus can be diagnosed on the basis of the following autapomorphies: distinct tuberosity on lateral surface of ascending process of maxilla; low boss on central portion of jugal at junction of the three jugal processes; prominent boss on dorsal surface of rostrolateral process of parietal; and presence of ridge on caudal part of lateral surface of maxilla. In addition, Lufengosaurus possesses a unique combination of character states not present in any other basal sauropodomorph.
G. Peng et al. 2005	Medium-sized prosauropod characterized by moderately elongated skull with triangular naris and large, rounded orbit; short but deep antorbital fenestra; supratemporal openings facing dorsally; straight and slightly compressed teeth with small serrations along anterior and posterior margins; long neck; presacrals rather massive; 10 cervicals, 14 dorsals, 3 sacrals and 45 caudals; long and narrow scapula; elliptical-shaped sterna; short forelimb; radius lacking radial crest; long hindlimb; tibia shorter than femur; digit I of manus and pes strongly proportioned; and digits IV and V reduced.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Entire body:

yesg

Maximum body mass:

3000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

1000 kgg

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Created:

2005-08-24 13:33:16

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:33:16

Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Bajocian or 201.40000 to 168.20000 Ma

Collections (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Hettangian	201.4 - 199.5	China (Yunnan)	L. huenei (173377) L. huenei, L. magnus (49501 49503)
Hettangian - Sinemurian	201.4 - 192.9	China (Yunnan)	L. magnus (71803)
Early/Lower Jurassic	201.4 - 174.7	China (Xizang)	L. changduensis (165590)
Sinemurian	199.5 - 192.9	China (Yunnan)	L. huenei (94783) L. huenei, L. magnus (49773 66926 71802) L. sp. (206023) L. sp., L. hueni (78994) L. sp., L. magnus, L. hueni (78993) L. sp., L. magnus, L. hueni, Yunnanosaurus huangi (72091) Saurischia indet. (59352) Sinosaurus triassicus, Saurischia indet. (59348)
Aalenian - Bajocian	174.7 - 168.2	China (Sichuan)	L. magnus (227429)