Sinusonasus

Taxobox
name = "Sinusonasus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
infraordo = Coelurosauria
unranked_familia = Deinonychosauria
familia = Troodontidae
genus = "Sinusonasus"
genus_authority=Xu & Wang, 2004
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"S. magnodens" Xu and Wang, 2004 (type)

"Sinusonasus" is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period, recovered from the Yixian Formation. These dinosaurs lived in what is now the Liaoning Province of China. The type species, "Sinusonasus magnodens", was described by Xu and Wang in 2004. "Sinusonasus" was a theropod, specifically a troodontid dinosaur.

The name should not be confused with "Sinosaurus".

References

* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/troodontidae.htm Troodontidae] at "Thescelosaurus"!
* Xu, X. and Wang, X. -l. 2004. A New Troodontid (Theropoda: Troodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China. Acte Geologica Sinica 78(1): 22-26