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Sinosauropteryx
Taxonomy
Sinosauropteryx was named by Ji and Ji (1996).
It was assigned to Sinosauropterygidae by Ji and Ji (1996), Ji and Ji (1997); to Compsognathinae by Rauhut (2003); to Archosauria by Senter (2004); to Coelurosauria by Senter et al. (2004), Rauhut et al. (2010); and to Compsognathidae by Holtz (1998), Currie and Chen (2001), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Currie (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Peyer (2004), Hwang et al. (2004), Martínez and Novas (2006), Peyer (2006), Gishlick and Gauthier (2007), Xing et al. (2012), Dececchi et al. (2012), Hu et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Sinosauropterygidae by Ji and Ji (1996), Ji and Ji (1997); to Compsognathinae by Rauhut (2003); to Archosauria by Senter (2004); to Coelurosauria by Senter et al. (2004), Rauhut et al. (2010); and to Compsognathidae by Holtz (1998), Currie and Chen (2001), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Currie (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Peyer (2004), Hwang et al. (2004), Martínez and Novas (2006), Peyer (2006), Gishlick and Gauthier (2007), Xing et al. (2012), Dececchi et al. (2012), Hu et al. (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Sinosauropteryx Ji and Ji p. 30 |
| 1997 | Sinosauropteryx Ji and Ji p. 30 |
| 1998 | Sinosauropteryx Holtz, Jr. p. 42 |
| 2001 | Sinosauropteryx Currie and Chen |
| 2003 | Sinosauropteryx Currie p. 57 |
| 2003 | Sinosauropteryx Rauhut p. 151 |
| 2003 | Sinosauropteryx Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 295 |
| 2004 | Sinosauropteryx Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76 |
| 2004 | Sinosauropteryx Hwang et al. p. 28 fig. 12 |
| 2004 | Sinosauropteryx Peyer p. 101A |
| 2004 | Sinosauropteryx Senter p. 260 |
| 2004 | Sinosauropteryx Senter et al. p. 17 |
| 2006 | Sinosauropteryx Martínez and Novas p. 256 |
| 2006 | Sinosauropteryx Peyer p. 880 |
| 2007 | Sinosauropteryx Gishlick and Gauthier p. 579 |
| 2010 | Sinosauropteryx Rauhut et al. pp. 183-184 fig. 23 |
| 2012 | Sinosauropteryx Dececchi et al. p. 135 |
| 2012 | Sinosauropteryx Xing et al. p. 503 |
| 2016 | Sinosauropteryx Hu et al. p. 191 |
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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
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| radius diameter | 2 | 2.86 | 2.10 | 3.90 | 3.00 | 1.27 | |
| ulna diameter | 2 | 3.60 | 2.70 | 4.80 | 3.75 | 1.48 |
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| Source: subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Aptian or 125.77000 to 119.57000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | China (Liaoning) | S. prima (50469 50470) S. sp. (13937) |