Qijianglong
CHEE-jee-ahng-LONG /ˌtʃiːdʒiˌɑŋˈlɒŋ/
Accepted genus
Qijiang dragon
- Qijiang · Place name (Chinese) · Qijiang District, Chongqing, China, the discovery locality
- long · Chinese (Mandarin) · dragon
The name means "Qijiang dragon". It refers to Qijiang District in Chongqing, China, where the fossils were found, combined with the Chinese word for dragon, "long". The type species is Qijianglong guokr. Its name honours the Chinese science website Guokr.
- Named by
- Xing et al.
- Year named
- 2015
- Period
- Late Jurassic
- Found in
- Qijiang District, Chongqing, China
A long-necked sauropod usually classified as a mamenchisaurid. It is known from a partial skeleton with a very long neck. I have left the geologic stage blank because I am not sure of it.