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Taxonomy
Sinosaurus was named by Young (1940). Its type is Sinosaurus triassicus.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Irmis (2004).
It was assigned to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1958); to Ornithosuchidae by Walker (1964); to Carnosauria by Young (1940), Young (1946), Young (1948) and Swinton (1970); to Teratosauridae by Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Simmons (1965), Benedetto (1973) and Rozhdestvensky (1977); to Melanorosauridae by Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and Anderson and Cruickshank (1978); to Herrerasauridae by Battail (1986); to Poposauridae by Carroll (1988); and to Theropoda by Carrano (2025).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Irmis (2004).
It was assigned to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1958); to Ornithosuchidae by Walker (1964); to Carnosauria by Young (1940), Young (1946), Young (1948) and Swinton (1970); to Teratosauridae by Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Simmons (1965), Benedetto (1973) and Rozhdestvensky (1977); to Melanorosauridae by Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and Anderson and Cruickshank (1978); to Herrerasauridae by Battail (1986); to Poposauridae by Carroll (1988); and to Theropoda by Carrano (2025).
Species
S. triassicus (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Sinosaurus Young p. 237 |
| 1946 | Sinosaurus Young p. 8 |
| 1948 | Sinosaurus Young p. 79 |
| 1956 | Sinosaurus Romer p. 615 |
| 1958 | Sinosaurus Huene p. 205 |
| 1959 | Sinosaurus Huene p. 120 |
| 1964 | Sinosaurus Tatarinov p. 537 |
| 1964 | Sinosaurus Walker p. 106 |
| 1965 | Sinosaurus Simmons p. 64 |
| 1966 | Sinosaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1970 | Sinosaurus Steel p. 57 |
| 1970 | Sinosaurus Swinton p. 139 |
| 1973 | Sinosaurus Benedetto |
| 1977 | Sinosaurus Rozhdestvensky p. 111 |
| 1978 | Sinosaurus Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31 |
| 1986 | Sinosaurus Battail p. 48 |
| 1988 | Sinosaurus Carroll |
| 2025 | Sinosaurus Carrano |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available