Tharosaurus
| Tharosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Early-Middle
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| Cervical vertebrae of the holotype | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
| Family: | †Dicraeosauridae |
| Genus: | †Tharosaurus Bajpai et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †T. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tharosaurus indicus Bajpai et al., 2023
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Tharosaurus (meaning "
diplodocoid currently known and the first described from India.[1]
Discovery and naming
Life restoration
The Tharosaurus
caudal vertebrae and a dorsal rib.[1]
In 2023, Bajpai et al.
Thar desert where the holotype was found with the Greek word "sauros", meaning "lizard". The specific name, "indicus", refers to the discovery of the specimen in India.[1]
Classification
Bajpai et al. (2023) recovered Tharosaurus as an early-diverging dicraeosaurid, suggesting it represents a relic of a lineage that evolved in India and later spread across the world. Tharosaurus is the oldest dicraeosaurid, as well as the oldest
phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below:[1]
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Paleoenvironment
The Jaisalmer Formation represents a deposit on the
ichnofossils are also known from the formation.[6]
References
- ^ PMID 37542094.
- . Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- S2CID 256347914.
- S2CID 249030842.
- ISSN 2039-4942.
- ^ Kulkarni, Kantimati; Borkar, Vidyadhar D.; Dashputre, Tejashree (2008). "Ichnofossils from the Fort Member (Middle Jurassic), Jaisalmer Formation, Rajasthan". Journal of the Geological Society of India. 71 (5): 731–738.