Dryptosauroides

Not to be confused with Dryptosaurus

Dubious as a Deinodon!

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This article belongs to a doubtful taxon, and may not exist! Please read with caution as it may be inaccurate information.

Dryptosauroides Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Life Restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	†Abelisauroidea
Genus:	†Dryptosauroides Huene & Matley, 1933
Species:	†D. grandis
Binomial name
†Dryptosauroides grandis Huene & Matley, 1933

Dryptosauroides is a dubious abelisaurid from late Cretaceous India. Known from tail vertebrae of an abelisaurid larger than Carnotaurus. It was estimated to be 33 feet long, by Molina-Perez and Larramendi in 2019. When compared to other theropods of its formation, its vertebrae are indistiguishable, which makes it a invalid genus and a nomen dubium.

It might have been a basal large abelisauroid which looks similar to a large noasaur like Deltadromeus, it is 2.3 meters tall (at hip), 10 meters long and 1.5 tons in weight.

In the Media

• Dryptosauroides is illustrated as a basal Abelisauroid which looks like large Deltadromeus like noasaurid in the book Dinosaur Facts and Figures: Theropods and Other Dinosauriformes.

Gallery

Dinosaur Facts and Figures: Theropods and Other Dinosauriformes Illustration

As an Abelisaurid