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Lufengosaurus huenei

Pronounced 'loo-fung-go-saw-rus hugh-nigh'

Artist: James Reece

Lufengosaurus huenei was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. It was probably able to stand and walk on its hind legs as well as on all fours.

Lufengosaurus huenei had:

small flat teeth with serrated edges which enabled it to shred plants;
strong hind legs which enabled it to stand and reach leaves high up in trees;
short front legs that were strong enough for it to walk on all fours;
five digits on each limb with a large thumb claw that it may have used for defence;
a big tail that helped to counter-balance its body.

This dinosaur was discovered by Dr C C Young, a Chinese dinosaur expert. He named it Lufengosaurus because it was found at Lufeng, and huenei after his teacher, F F von Huene.

Lufengosaurus huenei was a prosauropod, an early relative of the more massive sauropods. It belonged to the family Plateosauridae that occurred almost worldwide in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.