A new herrerasaurian dinosaur from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of south-central India

Citation

Ezcurra, M. D.; Garcia, M. S.; Novas, F. E.; Müller, R. T.; Agnolín, F. L.; Chatterjee, S. (2025). A new herrerasaurian dinosaur from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of south-central India. Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250081. The Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsos.250081

Names first published here

• Maleriraptor genus
• Maleriraptor kuttyi species

Cited by genera

• Chindesaurus

  New herrerasaurian description recovered Chindesaurus outside Theropoda in Morphoraptora.

• Maleriraptor

  Re-evaluates ISIR 282, originally described by Novas and colleagues 2010 as indeterminate Dinosauriformes, and recovers it as an early-diverging herrerasaurian outside Herrerasauridae.

Cited by clades

• Herrerasauria

  New herrerasaurian description with phylogeny recovering a broader Herrerasauria distinct from Herrerasauridae.

• Herrerasauridae

  Herrerasaurian analysis supporting placement within Saurischia outside Theropoda.