Sinraptor
SIN-rap-tor /ˈsɪnræptɔr/
Accepted genus
Chinese thief (or Chinese plunderer)
- Sin(o)- · Late Latin / Greek · China, Chinese
- raptor · Latin · robber, plunderer, thief
Sinraptor combines a prefix meaning "China" with the Latin word "raptor", meaning robber or plunderer. The name means "Chinese thief" and marks it as a predatory theropod from China. The type species, Sinraptor dongi, honours Chinese palaeontologist Dong Zhiming.
- Named by
- Currie and Zhao
- Year named
- 1993
- Period
- Late Jurassic
- Stage
- Oxfordian
- Found in
- Shishugou Formation, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China
A large carnivorous theropod belonging to the Metriacanthosauridae (formerly grouped in Sinraptoridae), a group of allosauroid theropods. The species Sinraptor hepingensis was later reassigned to Yangchuanosaurus.