Revisiting the world famous Lufeng Formation dinosaur fauna: new approaches to old problems

The Lufeng area is a key locality for Early and Middle Jurassic Chinese dinosaurs. This region is perhaps best known internationally for the co-occurrence of basal sauropodomorph-eusauropod dinosaurs and has therefore been an important research area since the 1930s. We review on a series of palaeoecological analyses in this paper and assess biomass, in particular, using skeletal fossils from this region and analyses of large living terrestrial...