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Maleriraptor kuttyi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Maleriraptor kuttyi was named by Ezcurra et al. (2025). Its type specimen is ISIR 282, a set of postcrania (a first primordial sacral vertebra with its right rib and the base of the left rib, the distalmost portion of a right second sacral rib, a caudosacral or first ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 1 km south of Annaram village (ISIR 282), which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Maleri Formation of India. It is the type species of Maleriraptor.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Maleriraptor kuttyi Ezcurra et al. pp. 6-7 fig. 2–5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
superorderTheropodomorpha
infraorderHerrerasauria
genusMaleriraptor
specieskuttyi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Maleriraptor kuttyi Ezcurra et al. 2025
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. D. Ezcurra et al. 2025Maleriraptor kuttyi is an early diverging dinosauriform that differs from all other Triassic archosaurs in the presence of the following unique combination of character states (autapomorphy indicated with an asterisk): centrum posterior to the second primordial sacral vertebra longer than each of the primordial sacral centra; ilium with a postacetabular process shorter than 0.6 times the length between the pubic and ischial peduncles, absence of brevis fossa, lateral rugosity of the iliac postacetabular process restricted to its posterior-most tip*; pubis with ventrally directed shaft; and pubis with a very poorly developed distal anteroposterior expansion.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988

Age range: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian227.3 - 205.7India (Andhra Pradesh) Dinosauriformes indet. A (type locality: 131838)