Yongjinglong

Yongjing dragon

• Yongjing · Chinese (place name) · Yongjing County, Gansu, China
• long · Chinese · dragon

The name combines Yongjing, the county in Gansu Province, China, where the fossils were found, with the Chinese word for dragon, "long". It means "Yongjing dragon". The name follows the common convention for Chinese dinosaurs of pairing a place name with "long".

Named by

Li et al.

Year named

2014

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Hekou Group, Yongjing County, Gansu Province, China

A titanosauriform sauropod. The type species is Yongjinglong datangi. The exact age of the Hekou Group beds is somewhat uncertain.