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| Xianglong Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Genus: | †Xianglong Li et al., 2007 |
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Xianglong (meaning "flying dragon" in Chinese) is a genus of Cretaceous lizard discovered in the Zhuanchengzi, near Yizhou, Yixian, Liaoning Province of China.[1] It is known from LPM 000666, a single complete skeleton with skin impressions. The specimen comes from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, near Yizhou. The most notable feature about Xianglong is its bizarre oversized ribs, eight on each side, which were attached to a membrane of body tissue and allowed the lizard to glide. While in its original description it was considered to acrodont lizard, with a cladistic analysis in the same study suggesting that it was grouped with iguanians such as agamines, chamaeleonids, and leiolepidines,[2] it was later shown that this was due to misinterpretation of the crushed skull, and its affinities with other lizards remains uncertain.[3]
- ^ Ancient lizard glided on stretched skin Ker Than, NBC News. Published March 20, 2007
- ^ Pi-Peng Li; Ke-Qin Gao; Lian-Hai Hou & Xing Xu (2007). "A gliding lizard from the Early Cretaceous of China" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (13): 5507–5509. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104.5507L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0609552104. PMC 1838464. PMID 17376871.
- ^ Gower, David J.; Zaher, Hussam, eds. (2022-08-11), "The Squamate and Snake Fossil Record", The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes (1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 5–110, doi:10.1017/9781108938891.003, ISBN 978-1-108-93889-1, retrieved 2022-11-06