Genus
Valid Extinct

Laevisuchus

Huene 1933

Laevisuchus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Its remains were discovered by Charles Alfred Matley near Jabalpur in Maastrichtian "Carnosaur Bed" deposits in the Lameta Formation in Madhya Pradesh, central India, and were named and described by paleontologists Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1933.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Laevisuchus
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Fig. 11. Laevisuchus indicus (K20/613), cervical vertebra in A, posterior, B, right lateral, C, anterior, and D, dorsal views. Abbreviations: dp, diapophysis; ep, epipophysis; nc, neural canal; ns, neural spine; pf, pneumatic fossa; pl, pleurncoel; poz, postzygapophysis; pp, parapophysis; prz, prezygapophysis. © 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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Noasauridae Family
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Laevisuchus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇳 India
2
Geological formations
Lameta
2
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Jubbulpuria tenuis subjective synonym of Laevisuchus indicus 72 Ma
Laevisuchus indicus 72 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Jubbulpuria subjective synonym of Laevisuchus
Images 1
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