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Sinraptor dongi

Reptilia - Metriacanthosauridae

Taxonomy
Sinraptor dongi was named by Currie and Zhao (1994). Its type specimen is IVPP 10600, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sinraptor type, Jiangjunmiao NE (CCDP), which is in an Oxfordian fluvial sandstone/mudstone in the Shishugou Formation of China. It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).

It was recombined as Yangchuanosaurus dongi by Gao (1999).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Sinraptor dongi Currie and Zhao p. 2039 figs. 2-28
1996Sinraptor dongi Osmólska p. 27
1997Sinraptor dongi Currie p. 661
1997Sinraptor dongi Dong p. 122
1997Sinraptor dongi Norell and Makovicky p. 19
1999Yangchuanosaurus dongi Gao p. 3
1999Sinraptor dongi Knoll et al. p. 106
1999Sinraptor dongi Naish p. 370
2000Sinraptor dongi Currie p. 434
2001Sinraptor dongi Dong p. 98
2003Sinraptor dongi Rauhut p. 27
2004Sinraptor dongi Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 74
2005Sinraptor dongi Canudo et al. p. 10
2005Sinraptor dongi Yates p. 108
2006Sinraptor dongi Currie p. 111
2007Sinraptor dongii Gishlick and Gauthier p. 577
2007Sinraptor dongi Sampson and Witmer p. 38
2007Sinraptor dongi Turner et al. p. 9
2007Sinraptor dongi Wings et al. p. 126
2008Sinraptor heping Watabe et al. p. 35
2009Sinraptor dongi Norell et al. p. 45
2009Sinraptor dongi Wu et al. p. 10
2009Sinraptor dongi Xing et al. p. 1394
2010Sinraptor dongi Benson et al. p. 75
2010Sinraptor dongi Choiniere et al. p. 1773
2010Sinraptor dongi Paulina Carabajal and Canale p. 253
2011Sinraptor dongi Turner et al. p. 59
2012Sinraptor dongi Carrano et al. p. 242
2012Sinraptor dongi Gao et al. p. 6
2012Sinraptor dongi Hendrickx and Mateus p. 102
2012Sinraptor dongi Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 86
2013Sinraptor dongi Fernandes de Azevedo et al. p. 134
2014Sinraptor dongi Dalman p. 161
2014Sinraptor dongi Xing et al. p. 1653
2016Sinraptor dongi Chiarenza and Cau p. 8
2018Sinraptor dongi Rauhut et al. p. 17
2019Sinraptor dongi Zahner and Brinkmann p. 1148

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
superfamilyAllosauroidea
familyMetriacanthosauridae
subfamilyMetriacanthosaurinae
genusSinraptor
speciesdongi

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.

†Sinraptor dongi Currie and Zhao 1994
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. T. Carrano et al. 2012Allosauroid with: (1) enlarged lateral temporal fenestra with relatively straight postorbital-squamosal bar; (2) very short squamosal ramus of postorbital; and (3) palatine very deeply pneumatic between internal naris and postpalatine fenestra (all from Currie & Zhao 1994).