Photo taken on Dec 14, 2024 shows the fossils of Lishulong wangi displayed in Lufeng City, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. – Xinhua photo

KUNMING (Dec 22): A dinosaur fossil specimen discovered in 2007 in southwest China’s Yunnan Province has been identified as a new genus of early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur – Lishulong wangi.

The findings have been published in the international multidisciplinary academic journal PeerJ.