Dravidosaurus
Dravidosaurus
- Pronunciation:
- dra-vid-oh-sore-us
- Name meaning:
- 'Dravidanadu lizard'
- Type of dinosaur:
- armoured dinosaur
- Length:
- 3.0m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 89-86 million years ago
- Found in:
- India
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.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae
- Named by:
- Yadagiri and Ayyasami (1979)
- Type species:
- blanfordi
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