Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Provinces Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China.
The team believes thatLishulong wangimay have grown up to 33 feet (10 meters) long.
The teams findings werepublishedlast month inPeerJ.
The skull of Lishulong wangi.Image: Zhang et al, PeerJ 2024
The large skull is just the latest find out of China.
The team suggested that the discovery ofL.
wangicould offer insights into the prevalence of the animal and its closest dinosaur relatives across Earths ancient supercontinent.
The paleobiodiversity of early sauropodomorphs from Gondwana seems to decrease marginally after the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, the researchers wrote.
Therefore, we hypothesize that non-sauropodan sauropodomorph genera survived and rapidly radiated in Laurasia, especially China.
In other words, early sauropodomorphs declined in Gondwana but thrived and diversified in Laurasia, especially China.
The newly described fossil is now on display at the Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley museum.
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