Sinopliosaurus
Sinopliosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Pliosauridae |
Genus: | †Sinopliosaurus Young, 1944 |
Type species | |
†Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis Young, 1944
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Sinopliosaurus (meaning "Chinese more lizard"; in reference to Pliosaurus) is a genus of pliosauroid plesiosaur, a type of short-necked marine reptile, alive during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous[1] (disputed Sinopliosaurus remains have been dated to the Toarcian age and were found in the Ziliujing Formation)[2] of the People's Republic of China - its exact age is unknown. The type species, Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis, was named and described in 1944 by Yang Zhongjian.[2] One species, "S." fusuiensis, was later shown to be based on teeth from a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur which is now known as Siamosaurus.[3] S. weiyuanensis would have lived near a coastal environment.[2]
The holotype, IVPP V140, consists of three vertebrae and a tooth, discovered in a layer of the Lianmugin Formation (Tugulu Group).[2][4]
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References[]
- ^ C.-C. Young. (1973). "Plesiosaur remains discovered in Dsungar Basin, Sinkiang". Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica 11:13-17
- ^ a b c d C.-C. Young. (1944). On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 24(3–4):187-205
- ^ Buffetaut, E.; Suteethorn, V.; Tong, H.; Amiot, R. (2008). "An Early Cretaceous spinosaur theropod from southern China". Geological Magazine. 145 (5): 745–748. Bibcode:2008GeoM..145..745B. doi:10.1017/S0016756808005360. S2CID 129921019.
- ^ Z. Dong. (1973). [Cretaceous stratigraphy of Wuerho district, Dsungar Basin]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:1-7
- Plesiosaurs of Asia
- Jurassic plesiosaurs
- Jurassic reptiles of Asia
- Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs
- Fossil taxa described in 1942
- Early Cretaceous reptiles of Asia
- Albian genus extinctions
- Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian
- Sauropterygian genera