Sinocoelurus (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sinocoelurus (meaning "Chinese hollow tail," in reference to location and to relate the new genus to the North American Coelurus) is a genus of dinosaur from the ?Tithonian-age Kyangyan Series of Sichuan, . It is an obscure tooth taxon.Famous Chinese Yang Zhongjian (in older references his name is given as C. C. Young) named this genus from IVP AS V232-234, a group of four isolated partial teeth found near Weiyuan, Guangyuan, Sichuan Basin. He described them as "long, slender, moderately curved and compressed; ridged anterior and posterior sides with no trace of serrations; enamel very thin." He considered the genus to be "coelurosaurian," which at that time meant a small theropod. The most distinctive characteristic of these teeth was their lack of serrations.