Dryptosauroides
| Dryptosauroides | |
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| Vertebrae from the holotype | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Genus: | †Dryptosauroides Huene, 1932 vide Huene & Matley, 1933 |
| Species: | †D. grandis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dryptosauroides grandis Huene & Matley, 1933
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Dryptosauroides (meaning "similar in form to theropod, possibly belonging to the Abelisauroidea. It has been estimated as 10 meters (33 feet) long and 1.5 tonnes (1.65 short tons) in weight.[1]
Its
theropod
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The type species, Dryptosauroides grandis, was named by Friedrich von Huene in 1932[2] and described by him and Charles Alfred Matley in 1933.[3] The specific name grandis means "large" in Latin.
See also
References
- ^ Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Barcelona, Spain: Larousse. p. 256.
- ^ Huene, F. von, 1932, Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia: ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographie für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Parts I and II, ser. I, 4:1-361
- ^ Huene, F. von, and Matley, C. A. (1933) "The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the central provinces of India" Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21: 1-74