Dryptosauroides

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Dryptosauroides
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Infraorder:	Ceratosauria
Superfamily:	Abelisauroidea
Family:	Abelisauridae
Genus:	Dryptosauroides Huene & Matley, 1933

Species

D. grandis (type)

Dryptosauroides is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a large theropod possibly belonging to the abelisauridae. Its fossils, consisting of a few vertebrae, were found in India; however, these remains are not distinguishable from other similar fossils. As a result, Dryptosauroides remains a nomen dubium.

The type species, Dryptosauroides grandis, was described by Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1933.

[edit] References

Huene, F. von, and Matley, C. A. (1933). The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the central provinces of India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21: 1-74