Biology:Dandakosaurus
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| Dandakosaurus restored as a Megalosauroid | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Dandakosaurus Yadagiri, 1982 |
| Species: | †D. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dandakosaurus indicus Yadagiri, 1982
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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.
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.
Classification
Dandakosaurus is currently classified as Averostra incertae sedis, variously suggested to be a ceratosaur or basal tetanuran.[2][4]
See also
References
- ↑ Jain, R. and Chowdhury, R. (1962). A new vertebrate fauna from the Early Jurassic of the Deccan, India. Nature. 194(4830): 755-757.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Olshevsky, G. (1991). "A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia". Mesozoic Meanderings 2 (San Diego): 196. http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/Olshevsky_1991_A_revision_of_the_parainfraclass_Archosauria_Cope_1869_excluding_the_advanced_Crocodylia.pdf.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Megalosauroidea". http://theropoddatabase.com/Megalosauroidea.htm#Dandakosaurusindicus.
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