Jingiella
Jingiella Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Skeletal diagram of the holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Family: | †Mamenchisauridae |
Genus: | †Jingiella Ren et al., 2024 |
Species: | †J. dongxingensis
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Binomial name | |
†Jingiella dongxingensis Ren et al., 2024
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Jingiella is an
preoccupied by a moth genus
named in 1983, and an amendment was published shortly thereafter, establishing Jingiella as the new replacement name.
Discovery and naming
The Jingiella
In 2024, Ren et al.
preoccupied by a moth described in 1983.[2] As such, a replacement name was needed. Ren et al. published an addendum shortly after the original description, amending the error and establishing Jingiella as the new generic name.[3]
Classification
In their
Mamenchisaurus youngi, Chuanjiesaurus, and Wamweracaudia. Their results are shown in the cladogram below:[1]
Mamenchisauridae |
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