Dandakosaurus
Sign in to saveDandakosaurus (meaning "Dandakaranya lizard") is a dubious genus of 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. Little is known about the genus, and some paleontologists consider it to be a nomen dubium.
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Dandakosaurus (meaning "Dandakaranya lizard") is a dubious genus of 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. Little is known about the genus, and some paleontologists consider it to be a nomen dubium.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype is partial proximal 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. Other material referred to the genus include dorsal vertebrae, caudal vertebrae, a tooth and a partial ischium. The type species, D. indicus, was named by Ponnala Yadagiri in 1982.
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