Sinosaurus

Sinosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic, 201–196 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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
Other species
†?S. sinensis (Hu, 1993)
Synonyms[1][2]
Dilophosaurus sinensis Hu, 1993 Shuangbaisaurus anlongbaoensis? Wang, 2017

Sinosaurus (meaning "Chinese lizard") is an extinct genus of basal theropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian). Fossils of the animal have been found in the Lufeng Formation, in the Yunnan Province of China. The type species, S. triassicus, was named by Chung Chieng Young in 1940. A second species, S. sinensis, was originally assigned to Dilophosaurus, but was later reassigned to Sinosaurus. Sinosaurus is morphologically similar to Dilophosaurus including the presence of a similarly shaped cranial crest, though its precise taxonomic position is uncertain, and the two genera may not be closely related.