Talk:Proceratosauridae

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Dinoguy2 in topic Is Sinotyrannus a proceratosaurid?

Is Sinotyrannus a proceratosaurid?

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On the Wikipedia pages Tyrannosauroidea and the Sinotyrannus it says that Sinotyrannus was a possible giant proceratosaurid. On (the page) Sinotyrannus on the taxobox it has it's family marked under a probable proceratosaurid. Like Below:

Sinotyrannus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma
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Sinotyrannus

Ji et al., 2009
Species

S. kazuoensis Ji et al., 2009 (type)

On the Tyrannosauroidea page under the section Classification it marks under the family Proceratosauridae that Sinotyrannus is one. On the Proceratosauridae page should it have it marked under a proceratosaur?

Respond Please.

DeinonychusDinosaur999 (talk) 1:13 P.M. 6/19/2010

This appears to have been added by an anonymous user who didn't cite any sources. I have both the Proceratosauridae paper naming the group and the Sinotyrannus paper, which AFAIK is the only one to even mention this genus. Neither say it's particularly close to Proceratosaurus, so this assignment seems to have been completely made up. MMartyniuk (talk) 23:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Edit: unless this one is in the Kileskus paper, which I don't have. If so it needs to be cited. MMartyniuk (talk) 23:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Just to update, Norell et al. 2010 (cited in the article now) have found Sinotyrannus to be a proceratosaurid, confirming some earlier online speculation that wasn't published yet when the above comments were made. MMartyniuk (talk) 00:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)Reply