| Sinopliosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pliosauroidea |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Genus: | †Sinopliosaurus Young, 1944 |
| Type species | |
| †Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis Young, 1944
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Sinopliosaurus (meaning "Chinese more lizard") is a dubious genus of pliosauroid plesiosaur.1 It lived during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous2 (disputed Sinopliosaurus remains have been dated to the Toarcian age and were found in the Ziliujing Formation)3 of the People's Republic of China - its exact age is unknown. The type species, Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis, was named and described in 1944 by Yang Zhongjian.3 One species, "S." fusuiensis, was later shown to be based on teeth from a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur which is now known as Siamosaurus.1 S. weiyuanensis was considered as a freshwater plesiosaur.4
The holotype, IVPP V140, consists of three vertebrae and a tooth, discovered in a layer of the Lianmugin Formation (Tugulu Group).35
References
References
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- C.-C. Young. (1973). "Plesiosaur remains discovered in Dsungar Basin, Sinkiang". Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica 11:13-17
- C.-C. Young. (1944). On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 24(3–4):187-205
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