Lufengosaurus

Lufengosaurus (, meaning "Lufeng lizard") is a genus of massospondylid dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China.

==History of Discovery== left|thumb|Lufengosaurus in a quadrupedal pose, skeleton donated to the Hong Kong Science Museum in 1998 The first remains of Lufengosaurus were found during the late 1930s by geologist Bien Meinian in the Lower Lufeng Formation at Shawan, near Lufeng in the Yunnan Province of China. From 1938 onwards, Meinian was joined by paleontologist C. C. Young (Chinese: 杨钟健, Yáng Zhōngjiàn). Young would go on to name the animal's type species, Lufengosaurus huenei, in 1940, with the generic name referring to Lufeng where it was found and the specific name honoring Young's old tutor, the German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene. Young would go on to publish a detailed description of the animal the following year and would assign specimen IVPP V15 as the holotype of the species, this specimen consisting of a nearly complete skeleton with a well-preserved skull.