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PRADHANIA
(prad-ha-ne-ah)
Named By: T. S. Kutty, S. Chatterjee, P. M. Galton & P. Upchurch in 2007
Time Period: Early Jurassic, Sinemurian
Location: India - Upper Dharmaram Formation
Size: Roughly about 4 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Massospondylidae |
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Pradhania is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age (Early Jurassic) Upper Dharmaram Formation of India. It was first named by T. S. Kutty, Sankar Chatterjee, Peter M. Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2007 and the type species is Pradhania gracilis. It was a sauropodomorph of modest size, only about four meters (13 ft) long, and is known from fragmentary remains. It was originally regarded as a basal sauropodomorph but new cladistic analysis performed by Novas et al., 2011 suggests that Pradhania is a massospondylid. Pradhania presents two synapomorphies of Massospondylidae recovered in their phylogenetic analysis.

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