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'''Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti''' (1902{{snd}}after 1982) was an [[India]]n [[geologist]] and [[palaentologist]], who worked at [[Banaras Hindu University]] in the Geological Museum (now part of the [[Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University|Institute of Science]]).<br />
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In 1934, he was the first Indian to [[species description|describe]] a species of dinosaur, ''[[Brachypodosaurus gravis]]'' (now considered [[Nomen dubium|dubious]]).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPeCBAAAQBAJ&q=Dhirendra+Kishore+Chakravarti&pg=PA193 |title=Dinosaurs by the Decades: A Chronology of the Dinosaur in Science and Popular Culture |date=23 July 2014 |first=Randy |last=Moore <!--authorlink=NOT the baseball player of that name--> |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood]] |isbn=978-0313393648 |page=193 |access-date=27 May 2016}}</ref> In 1935, he contested the interpretation of ''[[Lametasaurus indicus]]'' as an armoured dinosaur, arguing that it was a [[Chimera (paleontology)|chimera]].<br />
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In 1982, the [[Geological Society of India]] organised a [[Festschrift]] in his honour.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/proceedings-of-indian-geological-ivth-session-congress-varanasi-1982-a-volume-in-honour-of-prof-dk-chakravarti/oclc/14215358 |first1=D. K. |last1=Chakravarti |first2=A. K. |last2=Bhattacharya |last3=Indian Geological Congress |title=Proceedings of Indian Geological IVth Session Congress, Varanasi, 1982 : a volume in honour of Prof. D.K. Chakravarti |publisher=New Delhi : Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers |year=1985 |oclc=14215358 |access-date=27 May 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
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* {{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4Ql8hsTBEoC&q=Dhirendra+Kishore+Chakravarti&pg=PA88 |last=Chakravarti |first=Dhirendra Kishore |title=On a ''Stegadon'' molar from the older Gangetic alluvium near Benares |journal=Q. J. Min. Met. Soc. India |year=1931 |issue=3 |pages=115–124 |isbn=9780813720272 |access-date=28 May 2016}} Cited in [[Charles Lewis Camp]]: ''Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1928-1933''; [[Geological Society of America]]; 1940; [[ASIN]] B001O2KAIK<br />
* {{cite journal |last=Chakravarti |first=D. K. |year=1934 |title=On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India |issue=30 |pages=75–79}}<br />
* {{cite journal |url=http://www.ajsonline.org/content/s5-30/176/138.citation |last=Chakravarti |first=D. K. |year=1935 |title=Is ''Lametasaurus indicus'' an armored dinosaur? |journal=[[American Journal of Science]] |volume=30 |series=5 |issue=176 |pages=138–141 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s5-30.176.138 |bibcode=1935AmJS...30..138C |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 May 2016}}<br />
* {{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mR_cxcxO8h8C&q=Dhirendra+Kishore+Chakravarti&pg=PA76 |last=Chakravarti |first=Dhirendra Kishore |title=A geological, palaentological and phylogenetic study of the Elephantoidea of India, Pakistan and Burma: Part I Gomphotheriidae |journal=J. Pal. Soc. India |year=1957 |volume=2 |pages=83–94 |isbn=9780813710921 |access-date=28 May 2016}} Cited in [[Charles Lewis Camp|Camp, C. L.]], Allison H. J., Nichols, R. H.: ''Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1954-1958''; [[Geological Society of America]]; 1 May 1964; [[ASIN]] B001OPDDKE<br />
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