Coeluroides

Coeluroides ("hollow form") is a small, little-known theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India. It is known from scattered tail vertebrae discovered in the Lameta Formation. It is estimated at two meters long and perhaps thirty kilograms in weight, similar to but larger than Jubbulpuria. Coeluroides was long considered a nomen dubium because of sparse remains, but a 2004 overview of Indian theropods from the Lameta Formation found it to be probably valid.[1] An SVP 2012 abstract considers it as a possible senior synonym of Ornithomimoides.[2]

Coeluroides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 66 Ma
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Vertebra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Saurischia
Suborder:
Theropoda
Genus:
Coeluroides
Species:
C. largus
Binomial name
Coeluroides largus
Von Huene and Matley, 1933

The type species, Coeluroides largus, was described by Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1933.[3]

See also

References
  1. Novas, Agnolin and Bandyopadhyay, 2004. Cretaceous theropods from India: A review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). Revista del Museo Argentino del Ciencias Naturales. 6(1), 67-103.
  2. Wilson, 2012. Small theropod dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts 2012, 194.
  3. F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley, 1933, "The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India", Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1): 1-74


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