Top 9 Desi Dinosaurs that once ruled the Indian subcontinent
From the very ancient times, India has been called "the golden bird" mainly because of its abundant raw materials, precious stones, rich soil and geological location but only few people know that India was also blessed with the diverse prehistoric wildlife.
Fossil records suggests that India was once the homeland of many Prehistoric Creatures🐾, mostly dinosaurs and some of which have been named with Indian names.
Presenting 🎁you
Top 9 Desi Dinosaurs that once ruled the Indian subcontinent🇮🇳
Bruhathkayosaurus🌋
Name meaning: Huge bodied lizard
Pronunciation: Bru-hath-kay-o-sore-us
Estimated size: 40-44m
Estimated Weight: 175- 220 tons
First,thought to be a theropod,though later studies revealed that Bruhathkayosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod.Its estimated size was not only bigger than an Argentinosaurus but also bigger than a 🐋Blue whale.Biggest blue whale ever recorded was about 33m long and 173 ton heavy while the estimated size and weight of Bruhathkayosaurus was about 40-44 metres and weight between 175 to 220 meric ton.
The only irony is that the remains of the Bruthakayosaurus no longer exists.The fossils was swoon.
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Name Meaning: King of Lizard
Pronunciation: Rah-jah-sore-us
Estimated size: 6- 9 metres
Estimated Weight: 1 to 3 tons
Rajasaurus Narmadensis was a deadly indian carnotaurine
abelisaur which was found in lameta formation by Suresh Shrivastava.
Rajasaurus's remains were found near the river Narmada which gave it it surname Narmadensis.Being a member of group Abelisauridae Rajasaurus had very small hands and crest above it eyes similar to a carnotaurus.
Rajasaurus was probably like apex predator of its environment.Rajasaurus's diet should have been consisted of small ornithopods and sauropods like jainosaurus.Some paleontologist even suggest that it would have been an opportunistic cannibal.
Jainosaurus⛰️
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| Image Source-Google|Image by twitter Name Meaning: Jain's lizard. Pronunciation:jain-noh-saw-rus Estimated size: 21.5 metres. Estimated weight: 3 tons Jainosaurus was an giant indian titanosaurian sauropod named after an Indian Paleontologist Sohan lal Jain. |
It was first described as a species of Antarctosaurus, but a 1995 study of the remain reclassified Jainosaurus as its own
genus.
Jainosaurus had shared it's habitat with other titanosaurs like isisaurus as well as with predatory theropods like Rajasaurus indosaurus and indosuchus.
Dravidosaurus🌊
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Name Meaning: Dravidnadu lizard
Pronunciation: Dray-vid-o-sore-us
Estimated size: Unknown due to lack of remains
Estimated Weight: unknown due to lack of remains
Discovered and first named in 1979,was thought to be a stegosaurid Dinosaur,however this claim seems to have been made prematurely, as in 1991
Paleontologist named Sanket Chatterjee visited the fossil site and found that the remains belong to a plesiosaur and in 2011,Barrett and Carrano.
Fun fact: Plesiosaurs were water-dwelling prehistoric reptiles which mainly are piscivorous (sea food eater) and like pterosaurs they were also not dinosaur.
Lamplughsaura♀️
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Name Meaning: Lamplugh's lizard
Pronunciation: Lam-plugh-saw-ra
Estimated size: 10 metres.
Estimated Weight: 2 tons.
Lamplughsaura lived during early Jurassic preriod and its remains were first found in Dharmaram formation in India.It is currently can be categorised either as a very advanced saurodomorph or a primitive sauropod due to the lack of partial cranial remains of lamplughsaura
Lamplughsaura was named in honour of Pamela Lamplugh's,the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute and because Pamela Lamplugh was a women ,the feminine ♀️"Saura" was chosen for end of the name instead of the use of masculine♂️"saurus".
Indosuchus🐊
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Name Meaning: Indian crocodile
Pronunciation: In-do-sue-kus
Estimated length: 7- 9.3 metres long
Estimated weight: 1.2- 2.3 metric tons
Although still often regarded as a valid genus, Indosuchus is considered a nomen dibium by some paleontologists because in 1993 Charles and Freidrich not only named indosuchus,but also Indosaurus and compsosuchus from partial remains.
Though Indosuchus was not a crocodile suchus meaning crocodile Freidrich preferred naming dinosaurs with the last name as suchus because he thought dinosaurs were more closely related to crocodilians than a dinosaur.
Not much is known about Indosuchus except that it was an Carnivorous Abelisauridae Dinosaur.
Fun fact: In 2013, scientists discovered that India and Madagascar were part of Gondwanaland(An ancient supercontinent) about 85 million years ago.
Isisaurus
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Name Meaning - (Indian Statistical Institute🏫 lizard)
Pronunciation - Eye-see-saw-rus
Estimated size - 18 metres
Estimated Weight - 15 metric tons
Isisaurus was named after Indian Statistical Institute. Isisaurus is also known by the name of Titanosaurus Colberti .Fossil remains suggests that it would have shared its habitat with Jainosaurus, Bruhathkayosaurus and predatory theropod dinosaurs like Rajasaurus, Indosuchus which would have posessed threat to thier young ones.
Rahonavis☁️
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Name meaning - Cloud Bird
Pronunciation - Rae-hoe-nay-vis
Estimated Size - 7️⃣0️⃣ centimetres
Estimated Weight - 0.45-2.27 kg
Rahonavis was a genus (species) of bird-like theropod (animal who walks on two legs) dinosaur who was found in Maevarano formation in Madagascar which was once a part of India.
Rahonavis displayed features of both a dinosaur and a bird.Some paleontologists consider Rahonavis as capable of flight as evidenced by its long fore limbs and attachments for ligaments to the shoulder that prove rahonavis's body was capable of flight.
Alwalkeria
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Name Meaning- Alwalkeria (In honour of 'Allick walker')
Pronunciation - Al-wal-keh-riah
Estimated Size - 50 cm
Estimated Weight - 2 kg
Alwalkeria was originally named as walkeria however the name Walkeria was found to be occupied for a Bryozoan(a kind of tiny aquatic invertebrate) thats why In 1994 the name for this dinosaur was changed from Walkeria to Alwalkeria.
Alwalkeria,was possibly a primitive theropod and an omnivorous with similar features of an Eoraptor .So, in short Alwalkeria was the Eoraptor of India.
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