Dandakosaurus

Dandakosaurus; Temporal range: Toarcian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Genus:	†Dandakosaurus; Yadagiri, 1982
Species:	†D. indicus
Binomial name
	†Dandakosaurus indicus; Yadagiri, 1982

Dandakosaurus (meaning "Dandakaranya lizard") is a dubious genus of extinct averostran theropod dinosaur from the Kota Formation, Andhra Pradesh, India. It lived 183 to 175 million years ago in the Toarcian, Early Jurassic. It is currently classified as Averostra incertae sedis, variously suggested to be a ceratosaur or basal tetanuran.^[1]^[2]

The holotype is partial pubis, GSI 1/54Y/76, discovered between 1958 and 1961 and described as a carnosaur in 1962.^[3]^[1] The type species, D. indicus, was named by Yadagiri in 1982.^[4]^[1] Little is known about the genus and some paleontologists consider it to be a nomen dubium. In 2016 It was estimated to be 10 meters (33 feet) in length and 2.3 tonnes (2.5 short tons) in weight.^[5]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Olshevsky, G. (1991). "A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia" (PDF). Mesozoic Meanderings 2. San Diego: 196.
^ "Megalosauroidea".
^ Jain, R. and Chowdhury, R. (1962). A new vertebrate fauna from the Early Jurassic of the Deccan, India. Nature. 194(4830): 755-757.
^ Yadagiri, P. (1982). Osteological studies of a carnosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation: Andhra Pradesh. Geological Survey of India (Progress Report for Field Season Programme 1981-1982), Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, Southern Region. 7 pp.
^ Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Barcelona, Spain: Larousse. p. 257.

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[Olshevsky1991-1] Olshevsky, G. (1991). "A revision of the parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, excluding the advanced Crocodylia" (PDF). Mesozoic Meanderings 2. San Diego: 196.

[2] "Megalosauroidea".

[3] Jain, R. and Chowdhury, R. (1962). A new vertebrate fauna from the Early Jurassic of the Deccan, India. Nature. 194(4830): 755-757.

[4] Yadagiri, P. (1982). Osteological studies of a carnosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation: Andhra Pradesh. Geological Survey of India (Progress Report for Field Season Programme 1981-1982), Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, Southern Region. 7 pp.

[5] Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Barcelona, Spain: Larousse. p. 257.

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