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Dravidosaurus
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The holotype (the specimen that was used to formally describe the new species) was once thought to be from a plesiosaur (a marine reptile), but is now considered to be a stegosaurian dinosaur. However, the taxonomy is not agreed.
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- Pronounced
- dra-vid-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Dravidanadu lizard
- Length
- 3m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(89 - 86 million years ago) - Found in
- India
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae, Dravidosaurus
- Named by
- Yadagiri and Ayyasami (1979)
- Type species
- blanfordi