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Another Malkani masterclass, and his first of 2025.

Dubeynarainsaurus sahni from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation of India. Discovered in January 1944, it was a noasaurid theropod misidentified as a pterosaur in 1946.

The proposed holotype is allegedly a partial dentary with associated teeth - the image quality from 1946 was not great so the fossil can not be seen clearly.

The fossil can be seen slightly more clearly in an updated 1946 image shown in Malkani (2025) as seen below.

Malkani has also described the Rhinoceratidae species Soantherium bari and the "fossil" used to describe the species is the most fossil looking and least like a rock looking that I have ever seen a Malkani species named from.

Whats the whole deal about Saraikisaurus being a theropod and no longer being a pterosaur?

Generic Tyrannosaurus

Learning Resources Velociraptor (goes for around £9-£10)

Jurassic World Poposaurus (goes for around £15-£20)

All3 for £1

Recently went through my collection again and found this out. Here are the specifics:

Species: Harpoceras sp.

Found: Upper Lias Beacon Limestone Formation, Ilminster, Somerset, England (Kingstone Junction Bed site)

Age: Upper Pliensbachian (~185 million years old)

Purchased in Charmouth, England in September 2023

Goofy ahh sauropod names from Pakistan:

• Ikqaumishan smqureshi (and also cf. Ikqaumishan)

• Imranhkanhero zilefatmi

• Imrankhanshaheen masoombushral

• Qaikshaheen masoomniazi

Sadik malkani up to his usual tricks again

• Jeholraptor as a potential replacement name for Sinornithosaurus? haoiana (if it turns out to be a separate genus), resulting in Jeholraptor haoiana.

• Stegotitanus as a potential replacement name for Stegosaurus ungulatus (if it turns out to be a separate genus), resulting in Stegotitanus ungulatus.

• Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae is a new species of titanosaurian known from specimens previously assigned to Alamosaurus (from the North Horn Formation of Utah).

I can not stop laughing at Imrankhanhero so here is a picture of the humerus from the holotype LOL