Coeluroides

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Coeluroides Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Genus: Coeluroides Species: C. largus
Binomial name
Coeluroides largus Von Huene, 1932

Coeluroides ("hollow form") is a nomen dubium. A small, little-known dinosaur, specifically a theropod, Coeluroides lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India and Kazakhstan. It is known from scattered tail vertebrae discovered in the Lameta Formation. It is estimated at .8 meters in height, 2 meters long, and perhaps 30 kilograms in weight, similar to but larger than Jubbulpuria.

The type species, Coeluroides largus, was described by Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1932.

[edit] See also

• Jubbulpuria

[edit] References

• The Theropod Database
• Dinosaurier-Web