Sinosaurus
Sinosaurus triassicus
Pronounced: Sine - o - Sore - us
Diet: Carnivore (Meat-Eater)
Name Means: "China Lizard"
Length: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Weight: unknown
Time: Early Jurassic - 190 MYA
Fossil remains for this
Dinosaur have been found in
Asia
Sinosaurus was a very large meat-eater that lived in China at the beginning of the Jurassic period. Since the only parts of this dinosaur ever discovered are teeth and a small piece of its upper jaw, it is hard to know exactly what it looked like. It was probably one of the first large meat-eaters to live in Asia.
There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the material associated with this genus. Some material originally discovered with the teeth has since been regarded as belonging to a prosauropod. Teeth assigned to Vulcanodon seem to be almost identical to the Sinosaurus teeth. It has even been suggested that the teeth belong to a non-dinosaur, possibly a large thecodont. |
