| Description | Indosuchus is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period (70 to 66 million years ago – the Maastrichtian), a theropod related to Abelisaurus. Like most theropods, Indosuchus was a bipedal carnivore. It was about 7 metres long, weighed about 1.2 tonnes, and had a crested skull, flattened on the top. Other authors estimated it to be 9.7 meters in length and 2.3 tonnes in weight.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Abelisauridae : Indosuchus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Abelisauridae : Indosuchus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Indosuchus 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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| Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Allosauridae | stated with evidence | Huene, 1933 | | Indosuchus | genus | subjective synonym of Orthogoniosaurus | implied | Romer, 1956 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Pachypodosauria | stated without evidence | Huene, 1958 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Megalosaurinidae | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Tyrannosauridae | stated without evidence | Walker, 1964 | | Indosuchus | genus | subjective synonym of Orthogoniosaurus | implied | Romer, 1966 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Tyrannosauridae | stated without evidence | Steel, 1970 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Megalosaurinidae | stated without evidence | Molnar, 1980 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Bonaparte, 1986 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Carnosauria | stated without evidence | Gauthier, 1986 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Buffetaut et al., 1988 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Tyrannosauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Tyrannosaurinae | stated without evidence | Paul, 1988 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Bonaparte et al., 1990 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | implied | Loyal et al., 1996 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Chatterjee and Rudra, 1996 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Carnotaurinae | stated with evidence | Lamanna et al., 2002 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Rauhut, 2003 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated with evidence | Novas et al., 2004 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | implied | Malkani, 2006 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Juárez Valieri et al., 2007 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated with evidence | Carrano and Sampson, 2008 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Prasad and Sahni, 2009 | | Indosuchus | genus | nomen dubium Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Novas et al., 2010 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated without evidence | Candeiro et al., 2012 | | Indosuchus | genus | belongs to Abelisauridae | stated with evidence | Hendrickx and Mateus, 2014 |
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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/Indosuchus |
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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 |
| Buffetaut E., Mechin P., et al (1988) Un dinosaure théropode d'affinités gondwaniennes dans le Crétacé supérieur de Provence [A theropod dinosaur of Gondwanan affinities in the Upper Cretaceous of Provence], Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 306, 153-158 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Sereno P. C. (1997) The origin and evolution of dinosaurs, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25, 435-489 |
| 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 |
| Mohabey D. M. (2001) Indian dinosaur eggs: a review, Journal of the Geological Society of India 58 6, 479-508 |
| Lamanna M. C., Martínez R. D., et al (2002) A definitive abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Patagonia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 1, 59-69 |
| Rauhut O. W. M. (2003) The interrelationships and evolution of basal theropod dinosaurs, Special Papers in Palaeontology 69, 1-213 |
| Tykoski R. S., Rowe T. E. (2004) Ceratosauria, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 47-70 |
| Malkani M. S. (2006) First rostrum of carnivorous Vitakridrinda (Abelisaurid Theropod Dinosaur) found from the latest Cretaceous Dinosaur Beds (Vitakri) Member of PAB formation, Alam Kali Kakor Locality of Vitakri area, Barkhan District, Balochistan, Pakistan, Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series) 38 2, 7-26 |
| 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 |
| Candeiro C. R. A., Currie P. J., et al (2012) Theropod teeth from the Marília Formation (late Maastrichtian) at the paleontological site of Peirópolis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, Revista Brasileira de Geosciências 42 2, 323-330 |
| Hendrickx C., Mateus O. (2014) Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based phylogeny as a contribution for the indentification of isolated theropod teeth, Zootaxa 3759 1, 1-74 |
| 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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