Named Pulaosaurus qinglong, the newly-identified dinosaur species lived in what is now China during the Jurassic period, around 160 million years ago.

The ancient reptile was part of the so-called Yanliao Biota, a Middle-to-Late Jurassic-aged ecosystem that included dinosaurs, mammals, amphibians, insects and lizards, as well as plants.

“The Yanliao Biota is one of the most significant Mesozoic, terrestrial lagerstätte in China, with an age that ranges from 168 to 157 million years and is comprised of fossil assemblages from the Jiulongshan and the Tiaojishan Formations,” said senior author Dr. Xing Xu, a paleontologist with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan University, and colleagues.

“In total, there have been 54 genera and 58 species of vertebrates reported from the Yanliao Biota, including nine species of non-avian dinosaurs.”