Talk:Proceratosauridae

Sinotyrannus; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	Tyrannosauroidea
Family:	Proceratosauridae?
Genus:	Sinotyrannus; Ji et al., 2009
Species
	S. kazuoensis Ji et al., 2009 (type)

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Is Sinotyrannus a proceratosaurid?

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:

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]