Sinosaurus
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Not to be confused with Simosaurus.
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Sinosaurus | |
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Reconstructed skeleton at Museo delle Scienze of Trento, Italy | |
Scientific 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 | |
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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.