Kranosaura
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| Kranosaura Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Clade: | †Protopyknosia |
| Genus: | †Kranosaura Nesbitt et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †K. kuttyi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kranosaura kuttyi Nesbitt et al., 2021
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Kranosaura is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Late Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of India. It contains a single species, K. kuttyi.
Discovery and naming
[edit | edit source]The genus is based on two domes of 9 centimetres (3.5 in) long, discovered by Tharavat S. Kutty in the 1990s and described in 2021 by Nesbitt et al.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]It had an unusually domed head reminiscent of the later pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs in an example of convergent evolution, similar to that of Triopticus.[2] Kranosaura was the sister taxon to Triopticus, with which it forms the clade Protopyknosia.[1]
References
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