Genus
Valid Extinct

Indosuchus

Huene 1933
Etymology crocodile indien

Indosuchus is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now India. Like most theropods, Indosuchus was a bipedal carnivore. It was about 7 metres (23 ft) long, weighed about 1.2 tonnes, and had a crested skull, flattened on the top.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Indosuchus
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Right premaxilla of Indosuchus raptorius. © Fernando Novas, Federico Agnolin, Saswati Bandyopadhyay · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Ceratosauria Suborder
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Abelisauridae Family
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Indosuchus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇳 India
1
Geological formations
Lameta
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Indosuchus raptorius 72 Ma
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
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
Bibliography (1)
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