Sinosaurus triassicus

"Chinese lizard"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall

Sinosaurus 5.8 m (19.2 ft) long

as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip

Length: 5.8 m (19.2 ft)
Period: Early Jurassic (201–196 Mya)
Place: China
Food: Carnivore
Clade: Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Sinosaurus reconstruction by Illustration by Liu Chenyu. LiDa Xing, Phil R. Bell, Bruce M. Rothschild, Hao Ra — Reconstruction · Illustration by Liu Chenyu. LiDa Xing, Phil R. Bell, Bruce M. Rothschild, Hao Ra (CC-BY)

Sinosaurus (meaning “Chinese lizard”) is an extinct genus of basal theropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian). Fossils of the animal have been found in the Lufeng Formation, in the Yunnan Province of China. The type species, S. triassicus, was named by Chung Chieng Young in 1940. A second species, S. sinensis, was originally assigned to Dilophosaurus, but was later reassigned to Sinosaurus. Sinosaurus is morphologically similar to Dilophosaurus including the presence of a similarly shaped cranial crest, though its precise taxonomic position is uncertain, and the two genera may not be closely related.

What we know

Named by Young, 1940.
Body length estimated at about 5.85 m.
Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Sinosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.