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sharp-clawed runner
Sinraptor
Say it like this: “sien-RAP-tor”
Sinraptor dongi
Sinraptor ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 1993 · Currie, P. J.; Zhao, X. J.
- Hip height
- 1.8 m · 6 ft
- Length
- 7.6–8.8 m · 25–29 ft
- Weight
- 1.3 tonnes
- Found in
- China · Shishugou
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Metriacanthosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Sinraptor dates to 1993, the year P. J. Currie and X. J. Zhao described it. The name means “chinese plunderer.”
Fossils referred to Sinraptor date to the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian), roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shishugou Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Sinraptor at a length near 7.6–8.8 m, hips about 1.8 m high, and a body mass around 1.3 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Metriacanthosaurinae, among the theropod dinosaurs.