| Jaklapallisaurus | ||||
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| Name | Jaklapallisaurus | |||
| Order | Saurischia | |||
| Suborder | Sauropodomorpha | |||
| Class | Plateosauridae | |||
| Name Translation | Jaklapalli lizard | |||
| Period | Late Triassic 217-201 Million Years Ago | |||
| Location | India | |||
| Diet | Herbivore | |||
| Size | 2.5 m long, 1.5 m tall, 250 kg in weight | |||
| Date of Discovery | 2011 | |||
Jaklapallisaurus is a Prosauropod from late Triassic India. It was found in 2011. It is related to Plateosaurus.
Description[]
It lived during the Late Triassic period, specifically from late Norian to the early Rhaetian; in what is now Telangana, central India.
It is known from the holotype dubbed as ISI R274, which is a postcranial material, collected from the Upper Maleri Formation of the Pranhita - Godavari Basin and from the referred material ISI R279, partially complete right femur.
Classification[]
Jaklapallisaurus, alongside Macrocollum and Unaysaurus, was found to belong to the Unaysauridae.