Named By: | Young in 1942 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 160 Ma |
Location: | China - Dashanpu (Shangshaximiao) Formation |
Size: | Unknown due to lack of skeletal remains |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Teeth |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Neotheropoda | |
Szechuanosaurus ("Szechuan lizard") is a extinct genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. Fossils referred to the genus have been found in Asia in the Oxfordian (Peng et al., 2005). Its type species is largely based on several undiagnostic teeth from the Shangshaximiao Formation.