Sinosaurus

Sinosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
Reconstructed skeleton at Museo delle Scienze of Trento, Italy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Neotheropoda
Genus: Sinosaurus
Young, 1940
Type species
Sinosaurus triassicus
Young, 1940
Other species
  • ?S. sinensis
    (Hu, 1993)
Synonyms[1][2]

Sinosaurus (meaning "Chinese lizard") is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic Period. It was a bipedal carnivore approximately 5.5 metres (18 ft) in length and 300 kilograms (660 lb) in body mass. Fossils of the animal were found at the Lufeng Formation, in the Yunnan Province of China.

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