Genus: Maleriraptor EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025
Etymology: The genus name is derived from the Upper Maleri Formation, in which the holotype wand only known specimen was collected and Greek, raptor, "theif", which is an ending ususally used for predatory dinosaur genera.
Species: kuttyi EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025
Etymology: In honor of the late T. S. Kutty, who discovered the holotype and co-authored its preliminary description with some of the authors of this study (M.D.E., F.E.N., S.C.).
Holotype: ISIR 282
Locality: Around 1 km south of the Annaram village, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, Nizamabad District, Telangana State, India.
Horizon: Upper Maleri Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Early Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material: 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 caudal vertebra, an anterior caudal vertebra, right ilium proximal and distal ends of right pubis adn proximal end of left pubis.
Maleriraptor kuttyi Holotype: ISIR 282 after EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025: Caudal vertebra and partial pelvis.
Maleriraptor kuttyi Holotype: ISIR 282 after EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025: Articulated sacral adn probble first caudal vertebra; A) right lateral; B) dorsal; C) anterior; D) medial and E) ventral views.
Maleriraptor kuttyi Holotype: ISIR 282 after EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025: Caudal vertebrae; A) probable frist caudal vertebra in right ventralateral; B-E) caudal vertebra; B) left lateral; C) anterior; D) anterior and E) dorsal views.
Maleriraptor kuttyi Holotype: ISIR 282 after EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025: Right pubis; A-E) proximal end and F-K) distal portion: A) lateral; B) medial; C) anterior, D) anterolateral; E) posterolateral; F) proximal; G) distal; H) lateral; I) medial; J) anterior; K) posterior views.
Maleriraptor kuttyi Holotype: ISIR 282 after EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025: Proximal end of left pubis; A) anterior and slightly medial; B) lateral and slightly posteior and C) proximal views.
Maleriraptor kuttyi Holotype: ISIR 282 after EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MÜLLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025.