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Szechuanosaurus
| Szechuanosaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| Illustration of a partial tooth | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Neotheropoda |
| Genus: | †Szechuanosaurus Young, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| †Szechuanosaurus campi Young, 1942
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Szechuanosaurus ("Szechuan lizard") is an extinct genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. Fossils referred to the genus have been found in China, Asia in the Oxfordian-?Tithonian (Peng et al., 2005).[1] Its type species is based on several undiagnostic teeth from the Kuangyuan Series.[2][3] Additional possible specimens of Szechuanosaurus were also reported from the Kalaza Formation,[4] also located in China.
Szechuanosaurus is at times regarded as a nomen dubium[5][6] due to the lack of diagnostic features in the fossilized teeth upon which the genus is based.[7] Although the fossils are too fragmentary for confident identification, Szechuanosaurus is often interpreted as a medium-sized allosaurid[8] or perhaps a metriacanthosaurid,[6] capable of reaching lengths of around 7.3 meters.[6]
- ^ Peng, G.Z., Ye, Y., Gao, Y.H., Shu, C.K., Jiang, S. (2005): Jurassic dinosaur faunas in Zigong. Sichuan People’s Publishing House, 236 pp
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.
- ^ "Table 13.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 263.
- ^ Sadleir, R. (2008). The Anatomy and Systematics of Eustreptospondyllus Oxoniensis, a Theropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Oxfordshire, England. Palaentographical Society. p. 61.
- ^ a b c Molina-Pérez, Rubén; Larramendi, Asier; Connolly, David; Cruz, Gonzalo Ángel Ramírez (2019). Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Theropods and Other Dinosauriformes. Princeton University Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-691-18031-1.
- ^ Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004). The Dinosauria, Second Edition. University of California Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-520-94143-4.
- ^ Lucas, Spencer G. (2002). Chinese Fossil Vertebrates. Columbia University Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-0-231-50461-4.
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