Coeluroides

Coeluroides ("hollow form") is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India.[1] It based solely on the holotype caudal vertebrae GSI K27/562, K27/574 and K27/595, discovered in a layer of the Lameta Formation. The type species, C. largus, was described by Friedrich von Huene and Charles Alfred Matley in 1933.[2]

Coeluroides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 66 Ma
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Caudal vertebra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Saurischia
Suborder:
Theropoda
Genus:
†Coeluroides

von Huene and Matley, 1933
Binomial name
†Coeluroides largus
von Huene and Matley, 1933

When fully grown, Coeluroides is estimated at 2 metres (6.6 ft) long and perhaps 30 kilograms (66 lb) 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.[3] An SVP 2012 abstract considers it as a possible senior synonym of Ornithomimoides.[4]

See also

References
  1. Dinosaurier-info
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Wilson. (2012). Small theropod dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Program and Abstracts 2012, 194.


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