Genus: Andhrasaurus ULANSKY, 2014a, b (nomen dubium)
Etymology:
Species: indicus ULANSKY, 2014a, b (nomen dubium)
Etymology:
= Nodosauridae incetae sedis NATH, YADAGARI & MOITRA, 2002
Note: Galton & Carpetner (2016) argue that this name did not beet the requirements of the ICZN (199) for purposes of zoological nomenclature and regard this name as being a nomen nudum.
Holotype:
Locality: About 1 km south of Bodepalli village, about 30 km northeast of Bellampally (a coal mining town), Pranhita-Godavari Valley, Telangana State (old Andhra Pradesh State), South-central India.
Horizon: Lower Kota Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Sinemurian-Pliensbachian Stage, Middle Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.
Material: Fragmentary skull and dentaries, teeth, caudal centra, fragmentary scapula, and osteoderms, cervical? caudal osteoderms.
Note: Either early thyreohoran or the earliest record of ankylosaur (Galton, 2019).
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