Pradhania
| Pradhania Temporal range:Early Jurassic,
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Family: | †Massospondylidae |
| Genus: | †Pradhania Kuttyet al.2007 |
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Pradhania(named after Dhuiya Pradhan, a fossil collector at theIndian Statistical Institute) is agenusofmassospondylidsauropodomorphdinosaurfrom theSinemurian-age (Early Jurassic)Upper Dharmaram FormationofIndia.It was first named byT. S. Kutty,Sankar Chatterjee,Peter M. GaltonandPaul Upchurchin2007and the type species isPradhania gracilis.It was a sauropodomorph of modest size, only about four meters (13 ft) long, and is known from fragmentary remains.[1]It was originally regarded as abasalsauropodomorph[1]but new cladistic analysis performed byNovaset al.,2011 suggests thatPradhaniais amassospondylid.[2]Pradhaniapresents twosynapomorphiesof Massospondylidae recovered in their phylogenetic analysis.[2]
References
[edit]- ^abKutty, T.S.; Sankar Chatterjee; Peter M. Galton; Paul Upchurch (2007)."Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Jurassic of India: their anatomy and relationships".Journal of Paleontology.81(6): 1552–1574.doi:10.1666/04-074.1.
- ^abFernando E. Novas; Martin D. Ezcurra; Sankar Chatterjee; T. S. Kutty (2011). "New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India".Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.101(3–4): 333–349.doi:10.1017/S1755691011020093.
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