Sinotyrannus

Sinotyrannus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Diagram of known fossil remains in grey
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	†Tyrannosauroidea
Family:	†Proceratosauridae
Genus:	†Sinotyrannus Ji et al., 2009
Species:	† S. kazuoensis
Binomial name
Sinotyrannus kazuoensis Ji et al., 2009

Sinotyrannus (meaning "Chinese tyrant") is a genus of large basal proceratosaurid^[1] dinosaur, a relative of tyrannosaurids which flourished in North America and Asia during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Sinotyrannus is known from a single incomplete fossil specimen including a partial skull, from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, China. Though it is not much younger than primitive tyrannosauroids such as Dilong, it is similar in size to later forms such as Tyrannosaurus. It was much larger than contemporary tyrannosauroids; reaching a total estimated length of 9–10 m (30–33 ft), it is the largest known theropod from the Jiufotang Formation. The type species is S. kazuoensis, described by Ji et al., in 2009.^[2]

Classification

Sinotyrannus is a basal proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid. It is considered to be part of a clade containing Juratyrant and Stokesosaurus.^[3]

Below is a cladogram by Loewen et al. in 2013.^[3]

Estimated size of Sinotyrannus, compared to a human.

Tyrannosauroidea	Proceratosauridae Proceratosaurus bradleyi Kileskus aristotocus Guanlong wucaii Sinotyrannus kazuoensis Juratyrant langhami Stokesosaurus clevelandi Dilong paradoxus Eotyrannus lengi Bagaraatan ostromi Raptorex kriegsteini Dryptosaurus aquilunguis Alectrosaurus olseni Xiongguanlong baimoensis Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis Alioramus altai Alioramus remotus Tyrannosauridae

See also

• Timeline of tyrannosaur research

References

1. Brusatte, S. L.; Norell, M. A.; Carr, T. D.; Erickson, G. M.; Hutchinson, J. R.; Balanoff, A. M.; Bever, G. S.; Choiniere, J. N.; et al. (2010). "Tyrannosaur paleobiology: new research on ancient exemplar organisms". Science 329 (5998): 1481–1485. doi:10.1126/science.1193304. PMID 20847260.
2. Ji, Q.; Ji, S.-A.; Zhang, L.-J. (2009). "First large tyrannosauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota in northeastern China" (PDF). Geological Bulletin of China 28 (10): 1369–1374.
3. Loewen, M.A.; Irmis, R.B.; Sertich, J.J.W.; Currie, P. J.; Sampson, S. D. (2013). Evans, David C, ed. "Tyrant Dinosaur Evolution Tracks the Rise and Fall of Late Cretaceous Oceans". PLoS ONE 8 (11): e79420. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079420.

External links

• Pieces of Sinotyrannus skull.
• Diagram of pieces from Sinotyrannus.