| Brachypodosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Thyreophora |
| Infraorder: | Ankylosauria |
| Genus: | Brachypodosaurus Chakravarti, 1934 |
| Species: | B. gravis Chakravarti, 1934 |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachypodosaurus gravis |
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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.