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Pradhania gracilis

Reptilia - Massospondylidae

Taxonomy
Pradhania gracilis was named by Kutty et al. (2007). Its type specimen is ISI R265, a partial skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Krishnapur north (ISI R265), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial mudstone in the Dharmaram Formation of India.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Pradhania gracilis Kutty et al. p. 1566 figs. 17-18
2011Pradhania gracilis Novas et al. p. 340
2020Pradhania gracilis Peyre de Fabrègues et al. p. 4 fig. 4
2021Pradhania gracilis Khosla and Bajpai p. 195

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
familyMassospondylidae
genusPradhania
speciesgracilis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pradhania gracilis Kutty et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.40000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9India (Andhra Pradesh) Pradhania gracilis (type locality: 75761)