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Pradhania

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Kingdom
  
Suborder
  
†Sauropodomorpha

Scientific name
  
Pradhania

Higher classification
  
Sauropodomorpha

Order
  
Clade
  
Family
  
†Massospondylidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Pradhania

Similar
  
Jaklapallisaurus, Nambalia, Plateosauravus, Dinosaur, Leyesaurus

Pradhania is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age (Early Jurassic) Upper Dharmaram Formation of India. It was first named by T. S. Kutty, Sankar Chatterjee, Peter M. Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2007 and the type species is Pradhania gracilis. It was a sauropodomorph of modest size, only about four meters (13 ft) long, and is known from fragmentary remains. It was originally regarded as a basal sauropodomorph but new cladistic analysis performed by Novas et al., 2011 suggests that Pradhania is a massospondylid. Pradhania presents two synapomorphies of Massospondylidae recovered in their phylogenetic analysis.

References

Pradhania Wikipedia


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