Coeluroides

<i>Coeluroides</i>

Coeluroides

Extinct genus of dinosaurs

Coeluroides ("hollow form") is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India.[1] It is 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]

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When fully grown, Coeluroides is estimated to be 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]

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References

  1. [1]
    Dinosaurier-info
  2. [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. [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. [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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