Sinopliosaurus (dinosaur)
For the plesiosaur, see Sinopliosaurus.
"Sinopliosaurus" Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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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
- ↑ 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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