Sinopliosaurus (dinosaur)

For the plesiosaur, see Sinopliosaurus.
"Sinopliosaurus"
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: Spinosauridae
Genus: "Sinopliosaurus"
Species: "S." fusuiensis
Hou, Yeh & Zhao, 1975

"Sinopliosaurus" is a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of southern China, known only from teeth. The teeth came from an animal similar to Siamosaurus. It includes a single species, "S." fusuiensis, that was first assigned to the plesiosaur Sinopliosaurus.[1] Because this species is not a plesiosaur and therefore is not within the genus Sinopliosaurus, but not yet formally or officially named, the name "Sinopliosaurus" is used in quotation marks.

References

  1. Buffetaut, E.; Suteethorn, V.; Tong, H.; Amiot, R. (2008). "An Early Cretaceous spinosaur theropod from southern China". Geological Magazine 145 (5): 745–748. doi:10.1017/S0016756808005360.


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