Compsosuchus
| Compsosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Genus: | †Compsosuchus Huene & Matley, 1933 |
| Species: | †C. solus
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| †Compsosuchus solus Matley & Huene, 1933
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Compsosuchus (meaning "elegant crocodile") is a dubious genus of abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation of India.
Discovery and naming
[edit | edit source]Compsosuchus was described in 1933 by von Huene and Matley based on remains discovered between 1917 and 1919.[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
[edit | edit source]Although classified as an allosaurid by von 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 the Abelisauridae, including Carnotaurus and Indosaurus, necessitating the placement of Compsosuchus as an abelisaurid.[3][4] While a 2011 study classified Compsosuchus as a noasaurid,[5] a 2024 study identified it as an indeterminate abelisaurid.[6]
See also
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 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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