Jubbulpuria
| Jubbulpuria Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Ceratosauria |
| Genus: | †Jubbulpuria Huene & Matley, 1933 |
| Type species | |
| Jubbulpuria tenuis | |
Jubbulpuria ("Jubbulpore one") is the name given to a dubious genus of small dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation of India.
Discovery and naming
The genus was in 1932 named by Friedrich von Huene.[1] The generic name refers to Jabalpur in India, in the vicinity of which the fossils were found. The type species, Jubbulpuria tenuis, was described by Huene and Charles Alfred Matley in 1933.[2] The specific name means "slender" in Latin.
Its fossil specimens were found by Matley in 1917-19 or 1932 within the Lameta Formation, dating from the Maastrichtian. They consist of two syntypes, GSI K27/614 and GSI K20/612, each being a partial distal caudal vertebra.[1] A third distal tail vertebra, GSI K27/599, has been referred to the species.
Description
Jubbulpuria was a small predator, estimated to have been 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in) high, 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in) long, and weighing several kilograms.
Classification
Jubbulpuria was originally classified by Huene as a coelurid dinosaur similar to but smaller than Coeluroides,[1] another poorly known theropod from the Lameta Formation. Recent researchers have concluded that its position is hard to determine with any certainty beyond a general Theropoda incertae sedis, and that it should be considered a nomen dubium. It may have been a ceratosaur. A 2024 study identified Jubbulpuria as a junior synonym of Laevisuchus.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Huene, F. von, (1932), Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte: Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, 1e Serie, Heft 4, pp. 1-361
- ^ 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
- ^ Mohabey, D. M.; Samant, B.; Vélez-Rosado, K. I.; Wilson Mantilla, J. A. (2024). "A review of small-bodied theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of India, with description of new cranial remains of a noasaurid (Theropoda: Abelisauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e2288088. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2288088.
References
- Dinodata.de [in German]
