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[edit]
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[edit]
Dandakosaurus is currently classified as Averostra incertae sedis, variously suggested to be a ceratosaur or basal tetanuran.[2][4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Jain, R. and Chowdhury, R. (1962). A new vertebrate fauna from the Early Jurassic of the Deccan, India. Nature. 194(4830): 755-757.
- ^ a b c Olshevsky, G. (1991). "A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia" (PDF). Mesozoic Meanderings 2. San Diego: 196.
- ^ 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".
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