Compsosuchus
| Compsosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 69–66 Ma
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Noasauridae |
| Genus: | †Compsosuchus Matley & Huene, 1933 |
| Species: | †C. solus
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| †Compsosuchus solus Matley & Huene, 1933
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Compsosuchus (meaning "pretty crocodile") is an extinct genus of noasaurid dinosaur originally classed as an abelisaurian. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in India.
Discovery and naming[]
Compsosuchus was described in 1933 by von Huene and Matley.[1] The type species is C. solus, and the type and only specimen is GSI K27/578, an axis with an articulated axial intersection. The genus is often considered a nomen dubium.[2]
Classification[]
Although classified as an allosaurid by Huene and Matley (1933) and Molnar et al. (1990) because of superficial similarities with the axis vertebrae of Allosaurus, a 2004 review of Lameta Formation theropods found it to be similar to members of Abelisauroidea, including Carnotaurus and Indosaurus, necessitating the placement of Compsosuchus as an abelisauroid.[3][4] It has since been classed in the Noasauridae.[citation needed]
See also[]
- Timeline of ceratosaur research
References[]
- ^ F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley, 1933, "The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India", Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1): 1-74
- ^ "Compsosuchus". Dinosaurier-Info.De. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ F. E. Novas, F. L. Agnolin, and S. Bandyopadhyay, 2004, "Cretaceous theropods from India: a review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933)", Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(1): 67-103
- ^ Molnar, Kurzanov and Dong, 1990. Carnosauria. In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska (eds.). The Dinosauria. University of California Press. 169-209.
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- Abelisaurids
- Late Cretaceous dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs of India and Madagascar
- Nomina dubia
- Fossil taxa described in 1933
- Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
- Taxa named by Charles Alfred Matley
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