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🦴 Known fossil material
Indosaurus is known from only part of its skeleton. This diagram shows which parts of the body have been found.
Parts found as fossils
- Skull
Known from part of a thick skull roof (the frontal and parietal region), since lost.
Coloured areas are parts of the skeleton with fossil bones found so far (sometimes just one bone in that area); faint areas have not been found. The outline is a general shape for its group, not this dinosaur's real body.
Compiled from published descriptions; not yet checked against the original papers by a specialist. Sources: Wikipedia (en): Indosaurus
Indosaurus
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Indosaurus (Lameta), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Laevisuchus
Indosuchus
Jainosaurus
Lametasaurus
Rahiolisaurus
Rajasaurus
Isisaurus
Antarctosaurus
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Abelisauridae
- When it lived
- 66–72.2 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Maastrichtian
- Named by
- Huene and Matley, 1933
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- India
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata