Sinosaurus
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Skeletal reconstruction of Sinosaurus |
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| Lower Jurassic (possibly Hettangium ) | ||||||||
| 201.3 to 199.3 million years | ||||||||
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| Sinosaurus | ||||||||
| Young , 1948 | ||||||||
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Sinosaurus ("Chinese lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of the People's Republic of China . However, the genus has been regarded as the noun dubium since 2004, since the underlying holotype "IVPP V 34", an upper jaw fragment , does not provide sufficient phylogenetic information for the establishment of a taxon .
Sinosaurus probably reached a length of 2.4 meters. C. C. Young (actually Yang Zhongjian ) wrote the first scientific description in 1948.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregory S. Paul: The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs , 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 76 Online
- ↑ Randall B. Irmis: First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. In: PaleoBios. Vol. 24, No. 3, 2004, pp. 11-18, here p. 14, digitized version (PDF; 860.76 kB) ( Memento from December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Don Lessem , Donald F. Glut : The Dinosaur Society's dinosaur encyclopedia. Random House, New York NY 1993, ISBN 0-679-41770-2 , p. 439.