Indosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Life restoration in resting pose | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Abelisauridae |
Genus: | †Indosuchus Huene & Matley, 1933 |
Species: | †I. raptorius
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Binomial name | |
†Indosuchus raptorius |
Indosuchus (lit. 'Indian crocodile') is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period (70 to 66 million years ago – the Maastrichtian), a theropod related to Abelisaurus. Like most theropods, Indosuchus was a bipedal carnivore. It was about 7 metres long, weighed about 1.2 tonnes,[1] and had a crested skull, flattened on the top.