| Dalinghosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Dalinghosaurus longidigitus on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Anguimorpha |
| Infraorder: | Paleoanguimorpha |
| Clade: | Shinisauria |
| Genus: | †Dalinghosaurus |
| Species: | †D. longidigitus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dalinghosaurus longidigitus Ji, 1998
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Dalinghosaurus (often incorrectly spelled "Dalinghesaurus") is an extinct genus of lizards, first described in 1998 by S.A. Ji of the Peking University Department of Geology. The type species is Dalinghosaurus longidigitus.[1] It is known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) aged Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.
- ^ Ji, S.A. (1998). "A new long−tailed lizard from the Upper Jurassic of Liaoning, China". In: Department of Geology, Peking University (ed.), Collected Works of International Symposium on Geological Science, Peking University, Beijing, China, pp 496–505. Seismological Press, Beijing.