Jaklapallisaurus
| Jaklapallisaurus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Unaysauridae |
| Genus: | †Jaklapallisaurus Novas et al. 2011
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| Species: | †J. asymmetricus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Jaklapallisaurus asymmetricus Novas et al. 2011
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Jaklapallisaurus is a
monotypic
, only including the species Jaklapallisaurus asymmetricus.
Discovery and naming
The Jaklapallisaurus
Fernando E. Novas, Martin D. Ezcurra, Sankar Chatterjee and Tharavat S. Kutty in 2011. The type species is Jaklapallisaurus asymmetrica. ISI R279, a partially complete right femur which was collected from the Lower Dharmaram Formation (latest Norian–Rhaetian) was originally referred to Jaklapallisaurus.[1] However, later research proved that the referral is based on weak grounds, and the presence of the species in that stratigraphic unit should be based on a more taxonomically informative specimen.[2]
The
generic name is derived from the Indian town of Jaklapalli which is close to the type locality. The specific name
refers to the highly asymmetrical astragalus of this species in distal view.
In 2023, the ending of the Latinized specific epithet was changed from the female "asymmetrica" to the masculine "asymmetricus" because the ending of the Latinized genus Jakalapallisaurus is masculine. This modification is based on the Article 34 of the
dinosauriforms.[2]
Classification
In their 2023 description of the osteology of Jaklapallisaurus, Ezcurra et al. performed a
sister taxon to Macrocollum, in a clade also containing Unaysaurus, called Unaysauridae. The results of their analysis are shown in the cladogram below:[2]
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