Malerisaurus robinsonae Chatterjee 1980 (archosauromorph)

Reptilia - Protorosauria - Protorosauridae

May represent a chimera (as Malerisaurus langstoni was found to be by Spielmann et al. 2006)

Full reference: S. Chatterjee. 1980. Malerisaurus, A New Eosuchian Reptile from the Late Triassic of India. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 291:163-200

Belongs to Malerisaurus according to S. Chatterjee 1986

See also Chatterjee 1980 and Jain 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ISIR 150, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Mutapurum village, which is in a Carnian/Norian terrestrial claystone in the Maleri Formation of India.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Mutapurum village

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