| "Sinopliosaurus" Temporal range: Early Cretaceous |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | Spinosauridae |
| Subfamily: | Spinosaurinae |
| Genus: | "Sinopliosaurus" |
| Species: | "Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis |
"Sinopliosaurus" is a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of southern China, known only from teeth. It includes a single species, "S." fusuiensis, that was first assigned to the plesiosaur Sinopliosaurus.[1] Because this species is not a plesiosaur and therefore is not within the genus Sinopliosaurus, the name "Sinopliosaurus" is used in quotation marks. The teeth came from an animal similar to Siamosaurus.[2]