Analong
Analong (meaning "Ana dragon") is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Chuanjie Formation in Yunnan, China. The type and only species is Analong chuanjieensis.[1]
| Analong | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Eusauropoda |
| Family: | †Mamenchisauridae |
| Genus: | †Analong Ren et al. 2020 |
| Type species | |
| †Analong chuanjieensis Ren et al. 2020 | |
Discovery and naming
The holotype, LFGT LCD 9701–1, found in 1995, was in 2011 assigned to the contemporary genus Chuanjiesaurus.[2] However, in 2020, Ren et al. noted several differences between it and the holotype of Chuanjiesaurus, and so assigned it to a new taxon, Analong chuanjieensis. The binomial name means "Ana dragon from Chuanjie", where Ana is the village in Yunnan Province where the holotype was found.[1]
Classification
In a phylogenetic analysis, Analong was found by its describers to be the earliest diverging mamenchisaurid. Their resulting phylogenetic tree of Mamenchisauridae is reproduced below.[1]
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References
- Xin-Xin Ren; Toru Sekiya; Tao Wang; Zhi-Wen Yang; Hai-Lu You (2020). "A revision of the referred specimen of Chuanjiesaurus anaensis Fang et al., 2000: a new early branching mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Middle Jurassic of China". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. in press. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1747450.
- Sekiya, T. (2011). "Re-examination of Chuanjiesaurus anaensis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, southwest China" (PDF). Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. 10: 1–54.
