Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902Template:Sndafter 1982) was an Indian geologist and palaentologist, who worked at Banaras Hindu University in the Geological Museum (now part of the Institute of Science).
In 1934, he was the first Indian to describe a species of dinosaur, Brachypodosaurus gravis (now considered dubious).[1] In 1935, he contested the interpretation of Lametasaurus indicus as an armoured dinosaur, arguing that it was a chimera.
In 1982, the Geological Society of India organised a Festschrift in his honour.[2]
Publications
- On a Stegadon molar from the older Gangetic alluvium near Benares. Q. J. Min. Met. Soc. India({Template:Year). Cited in Charles Lewis Camp: Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1928-1933; Geological Society of America; 1940; ASIN B001O2KAIK
- On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India({Template:Year).
- Is Lametasaurus indicus an armored dinosaur?. American Journal of Science({Template:Year).
- A geological, palaentological and phylogenetic study of the Elephantoidea of India, Pakistan and Burma: Part I Gomphotheriidae. J. Pal. Soc. India({Template:Year). Cited in Camp, C. L., Allison H. J., Nichols, R. H.: Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1954-1958; Geological Society of America; 1 May 1964; ASIN B001OPDDKE
References
- ↑ Dinosaurs by the Decades: A Chronology of the Dinosaur in Science and Popular Culture{{#if:Moore|, Moore}. Greenwood(23 July 2014). ISBN 978-0313393648
- ↑ Proceedings of Indian Geological IVth Session Congress, Varanasi, 1982 : a volume in honour of Prof. D.K. Chakravarti{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. New Delhi : Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers(1985)
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