Fulengia

From Fuleng (a place name in China)

• Fuleng · Chinese (place name) · Fuleng, a locality in Yunnan Province, China

Fulengia is named after the Fuleng locality in Yunnan Province, China, where the fossil material was discovered. The suffix '-ia' is a standard Latinised ending commonly applied to genus names derived from place names. The name thus commemorates the geographic origin of the specimen. It was described by Carroll and Galton in 1977.

Named by

Carroll and Galton

Year named

1977

Period

Early Jurassic

Stage

Hettangian

Found in

Yunnan Province, China

Fulengia is generally considered a nomen dubium. It was originally described as a prosauropod dinosaur, but the material is fragmentary and may represent a juvenile specimen of another taxon, possibly Lufengosaurus. Some analyses have suggested the material could even belong to a non-dinosaurian archosaur. It is not widely accepted as a valid genus.