Kranosaura
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Clade: | †Protopyknosia |
Genus: | †Kranosaura Nesbitt et al., 2021 |
Species: |
†K. kuttyi
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Binomial name | |
†Kranosaura kuttyi Nesbitt et al., 2021 |
Kranosaura is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Late Triassic Upper Maleri FormationofIndia. It contains a single species, K. kuttyi, described in 2021 by Nesbitt et al.[1] It had an unusually domed head reminiscent of the later pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs in an example of convergent evolution, similar to that of Triopticus.[2] Kranosaura was the sister taxontoTriopticus, with which it forms the clade Protopyknosia.[1] The genus is based on two domes of 9 centimetres (3.5 in) long, discovered by T. S. Kutty in the 1990s.
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