Dandakosaurus

Dandakosaurus (meaning "Dandakaranya lizard") is a genus of extinct averostran theropod dinosaur from the Kota Formation, Andhra Pradesh, India. It lived 183 to 175 million years ago from the latest Pliensbachian to the late Toarcian stages of the Early Jurassic.

Dandakosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic (Latest Pliensbachian-late Toarcian),
Dandakosaurus restored as a Megalosauroid
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Genus: †Dandakosaurus
Yadagiri, 1982
Species:
†D. indicus
Binomial name
†Dandakosaurus indicus
Yadagiri, 1982

Discovery and naming

The holotype is partial pubis, GSI 1/54Y/76, discovered in the Kota Formation of India between 1958 and 1961 and was described as an indeterminate carnosaur in 1962.[1][2] The type species, D. indicus, was named by Yadagiri in 1982.[3][2] Little is known about the genus and some paleontologists consider it to be a nomen dubium.

Description

In 2016, Dandakosaurus was estimated to be 10 meters (33 feet) in length and 2.3 tonnes (2.5 short tons) in weight.[4]

Classification

Dandakosaurus is currently classified as Averostra incertae sedis, variously suggested to be a ceratosaur or basal tetanuran.[2][5]

See also

References
  1. Jain, R. and Chowdhury, R. (1962). A new vertebrate fauna from the Early Jurassic of the Deccan, India. Nature. 194(4830): 755-757.
  2. Olshevsky, G. (1991). "A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia" (PDF). Mesozoic Meanderings 2. San Diego: 196.
  3. Yadagiri, P. (1982). Osteological studies of a carnosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation: Andhra Pradesh. Geological Survey of India (Progress Report for Field Season Programme 1981-1982), Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, Southern Region. 7 pp.
  4. Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Barcelona, Spain: Larousse. p. 257.
  5. "Megalosauroidea".
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