Phenomenal new sauropodomorph: Yizhousaurus

[Halichoeres]

Most of the skeleton including an entire skull and jaws of a large sauropodomorph with a sauropod-like head. From the Lufeng formation (Lower Jurassic), which also gave us Lufengosaurus. Here's Yizhousaurus sunae!



Open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-31874-9

Edit: This specimen has been known to sauropodomorph workers for a while, but it's only now being formally described. It was presented at a Geological Society of America meeting in 2010. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_175675.htm

[Vidusaurus]

Glad it's finally received an official description! However, I can't help but wonder what the odds are that it'll just get combined back into Lufengosaurus at some point like the half-dozen or so other purportedly unique Lufeng Formation sauropodomorphs?

[Halichoeres]

Possibly! I don't know enough about the anatomy or taxonomy of those guys to speculate.