Brachypodosaurus
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| Brachypodosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Brachypodosaurus gravis |
Brachypodosaurus (meaning "short-footed lizard") was a genus of thyreophoran dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Lameta formation (Maastrichtian) in India. The only remains discovered so far for this animal has been a fossil humerus, named Brachypodosaurus gravis by Chakravati in 1934, and originally described as a stegosaur.[1]
This ornithischian could have been either an ankylosaur (an armoured dinosaur) or a stegosaur (a plated dinosaur). The name Brachypodosaurus is, however, considered as a nomen dubium as so few remains of the animal have been found.[2] Wilson et al., cast further doubts on the stegosaurian affinity of the genus in 2003.[3] The other Late Cretaceous genus from India originally described as a stegosaur, Dravidosaurus, is also a nomen dubium.
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- ^ Chakravarti, D. K., 1934, "On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore", Q.J. MINERAL. METALLURG. SOC. INDIA, 30; 75-79
- ^ Maryanska T., 1977. "Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia", Palaeontologia Polonica 37:85-151
- ^ Wilson, J. A., P. C. Sereno, S. Srivastava, D. K. Bhatt, A. Khosla, and A. Sahni. 2003. "A new abelisaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lameta Formation (Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of India", Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology of the University of Michigan, 31:1–42
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