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Jingiella

Say it: jin-jee-ELL-uh

Name means: “little Jing, named after the Jing people of China”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Jurassic

Jingiella was a long-necked sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now southern China. It munched on plants and walked on four sturdy legs. This dinosaur was first thought to be called Jingia, but that name was already taken by a moth, so scientists changed it to Jingiella.1

Lived

155 to 149 million years ago3

Late Jurassic

Fossils found in

Dongxing Formation, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China1 2

Food

Plants2

Length

10 to 15 m2

estimated from fragmentary remains

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

as long as 3 cars parked in a rowas long as 83 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

Jingiella lived about 154 to 149 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period.2

Its fossils include parts of the backbone, hip bones, arm bones, and a thigh bone.1

Jingiella belongs to a group of sauropods called mamenchisaurids, which are known for their very long necks.1

The first name for this dinosaur, Jingia, was already used for a moth, so scientists renamed it Jingiella in 2024.1

Jingiella had tall and narrow spines on its back vertebrae, similar to its relative Mamenchisaurus.1

The tail vertebrae of Jingiella were concave on both ends, like in more primitive sauropods, but different from Mamenchisaurus.1

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Scientific name: Jingiella
Named by: Ren et al. 20243
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Mamenchisauridae3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda3
Age of the rocks: 155 to 149 million years (Kimmeridgian)3
Rock formations: Dongxing3
Countries: China3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Jingiella was named in 2024 by Ren and colleagues based on fossils found in Dongxing, Guangxi, China. The bones were restored at the Chongzhou Tianyan Museum.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how long Jingiella's neck was, because only a few neck bones have been found.1

Where the facts come from

Jingiella (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Jingiella in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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