| Description | Indosaurus (meaning "Indian lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur once living in what is now India. It lived about 69 to 66 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian division of the Late Cretaceous. It weighed roughly 700 kg (1540 lb).
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Abelisauridae : Indosaurus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Abelisauridae : Indosaurus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Indosaurus von Huene, 1932 |
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| Name Published In | in Soergel, Mon. Geol. Palaeontol., 1 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Allosauridae | stated with evidence | Huene, 1933 | | Indosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Orthogoniosaurus | implied | Romer, 1956 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Megalosaurinidae | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Megalosaurinidae | stated without evidence | Walker, 1964 | | Indosaurus | genus | subjective synonym of Orthogoniosaurus | implied | Romer, 1966 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Megalosaurinidae | stated without evidence | Steel, 1970 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Carnosauria | stated without evidence | Gauthier, 1986 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Allosauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Allosaurinae | stated without evidence | Paul, 1988 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Bonaparte, 1991 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | implied | Loyal et al., 1996 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Chatterjee and Rudra, 1996 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated with evidence | Novas et al., 2004 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Sampson and Witmer, 2007 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated with evidence | Carrano and Sampson, 2008 | | Indosaurus | genus | nomen dubium Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Novas et al., 2010 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Majungasaurinae | stated with evidence | Tortosa et al., 2014 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated with evidence | Gianechini et al., 2015 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Ratsinbaholison et al., 2016 | | Indosaurus | genus | belongs to Majungasaurinae | stated with evidence | Filippi et al., 2016 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Theropoda) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Theropoda) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Theropoda) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | 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 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indosaurus |
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| Huene F. v., Matley C. A. (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 |
| Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589 |
| Walker A. D. (1964) Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248, 53-134 |
| Steel R. (1970) Part 14. Saurischia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-87 |
| Molnar R. E. (1980) Australian late Mesozoic continental tetrapods: some implications, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139, 131-143 |
| Gauthier J. A. (1986) Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds, The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight, K. Padian (ed.), Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 8, 1-55 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Paul G. S. (1988) , Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1-464 |
| Bonaparte J. F. (1991) The Gondwanian theropod families Abelisauridae and Noasauridae, Historical Biology 5 1, 1-25 |
| Chatterjee S., Rudra D. K. (1996) KT events in India: impact, rifting, volcanism and dinosaur extinction, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39 3, 489-532 |
| Loyal R. S., Khosla A., et al (1996) Gondwanan dinosaurs of India: affinities and palaeobiogeography, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39 3, 627-638 |
| Sampson S. D., Krause D. W., et al (1996) The premaxilla of Majungasaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda), with implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 4, 601-605 |
| Sahni A. (1997) Indian dinosaurs, Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, 361-368 |
| Sampson S. D., Witmer L. M., et al (1998) Predatory dinosaur remains from Madagascar: implications for the Cretaceous biogeography of Gondwana, Science 280, 1048-1051 |
| Knoll F., Buffetaut E., et al (1999) A theropod braincase from the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires cliffs (Normandy, France): osteology and palaeoneurology, Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 1999 1, 103-109 |
| Mohabey D. M. (2001) Indian dinosaur eggs: a review, Journal of the Geological Society of India 58 6, 479-508 |
| Tykoski R. S., Rowe T. E. (2004) Ceratosauria, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 47-70 |
| Carrano M. T., Sampson S. D. (2008) The phylogeny of Ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 2, 183-236 doi:10.1017/S1477201907002246 |
| Tortosa T., Buffetaut E., et al (2014) A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of southern France: palaeobiogeographical implications, Annales de Paléontologie 100 1, 63-86 doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2013.10.003 |
| Gianechini F. A., Apestteguia S., et al (2015) New abelisaurid remains from the Anacleto Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina, Cretaceous Research 54, 1-16 |
| Filippi L. S., Méndez A. H., et al (2016) A new brachyrostran with hypertrophied axial structures reveals an unexpected radiation of latest Cretaceous abelisaurids, Cretaceous Research 60, 209-219 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.018 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| in Soergel, Mon. Geol. Palaeontol., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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