- · Grid units represent actual meters (m); human and animals are drawn to the exact same scale with original silhouette aspect ratios preserved.
- · When a size range is recorded (e.g. 1–1.6m), the lower bound is used for scale comparison.
- · Lufengosaurus silhouette: PhyloPic — Tasman Dixon · CC0 1.0 (Lufengosaurus)
- · Human silhouette: PhyloPic — NASA · Public Domain Mark 1.0
Lufengosaurus
Lufengosaurus huenei (Lufengosaurus · Lufengosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 An estimated body length of 6 m is about one and 1/3 passenger cars (about 4.5 m each) (Comparison).
- 💡 The finding that hatchlings were fed by their parents came from comparing them with how pigeon chicks are fed by their parents.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
Lufengosaurus huenei (genus Lufengosaurus) was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in China during the Early Jurassic about 200–195 million years ago, and its name means "Lufeng lizard."
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It is classified as a long-necked sauropodomorph (primitive sauropod), and Yang Zhongjian (Young) named it in 1941.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
In a study comparing embryos inside eggs and hatchling bones with those of birds, researchers concluded that hatchlings, like pigeons, could not forage on their own and were fed by their parents.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20718661
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Lufengosaurus 20081026 HKScienceMuseum.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — lufengosaurus.html
- • doi.org — s41598-024-70981-8
- • doi.org — peerj.18629
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Tasman Dixon · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Lufengosaurus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.