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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Abelisaurid theropod dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous Period}}<br />
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| fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|70|66|earliest=70.6|latest=66}}<br />
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| image_caption = [[Life restoration]] in resting pose<br />
| genus = Indosuchus<br />
| parent_authority = Huene & Matley, 1933<br />
| species = raptorius<br />
| authority = [[Friedrich von Huene|Huene]] & [[Charles Alfred Matley|Matley]], 1933<br />
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'''''Indosuchus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[abelisaurid]] [[dinosaur]] from the Late [[Cretaceous]] [[Period (geology)|Period]] (70 to 66 [[million years ago]] – the [[Maastrichtian]]), a [[theropod]] related to ''[[Abelisaurus]]''. Like most theropods, ''Indosuchus'' was a [[bipedal]] [[carnivore]]. It was about 7 metres long, weighed about 1.2 tonnes,<ref>Paul, G.S., 2010, ''The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs'', Princeton University Press p. 78</ref> and had a crested skull, flattened on the top. Other authors estimated it to be 9.7 meters in length and 2.3 tonnes in weight.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos, Larousse|last=Molina-Pérez & Larramendi|year=2016|location=Barcelona, Spain|pages=256}}</ref><br />
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==Naming==<br />
''Indosuchus'' was named by [[Friedrich von Huene]] in 1932<ref>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</ref> and was described by Huene and [[Charles Alfred Matley]] in 1933 from three partial skulls found by Matley in [[India]] near [[Jabalpur]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]] in strata of the [[Lameta Formation]].<ref>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</ref> The [[lectotype]] is GSI K27/685.<ref>S. Chatterjee, 1978, "''Indosuchus'' and ''Indosaurus'', Cretaceous carnosaurs from India", ''Journal of Paleontology'' '''52'''(3): 570-580</ref><br />
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The generic name is derived from ''Indos'', [[Ancient Greek]] for the [[Indus]] and ''Soukhos'', Ancient Greek for the [[Sobek|Egyptian crocodile god]]. The [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''raptorius'' means "raptorial" in [[Latin]].<br />
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==Classification==<br />
Because only some skull elements have been found, ''Indosuchus'' placement has been somewhat erratic. Although it is now somewhat firmly placed within the Abelisauridae, it was originally assigned by von Huene to the [[Allosauridae]]. [[Alick Walker]] thought in 1964 it was a member of the [[Tyrannosauridae]]. The discovery of other abelisaurids like ''[[Carnotaurus]]'' has helped clarify its position; in 1986 [[José Bonaparte]] concluded it was an abelisaurid.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Timeline of ceratosaur research]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030921101437/http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs/indos.html Dann's Dinosaurs]<br />
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