Genus: Panthasaurus CHAKRAVORTI & SENGUPTA 2018
Etymology: Sanskrit, pantha (pronounced Pantho), "traveller" and Greek, sauros, "lizard,", the travelling bveast, alludes to the geographically distant metoposaurids population of India, especially from Nroth American and European populations.
Species: maleriensis (ROY CHOWDHURY, 1965) CHAKRAVORTI & SENGUPTA, 2018
Etymology: In reference to the Maleri Formation.
= Metoposaurus maleriensis ROY CHOWDHURY, 1965
= Buettneria (Koskinonodon) perfectus HUNT, 1993 (partim)
= Buettneria maleriensis (ROY CHOWDHURY, 1965) SENGUPTA, 2002
= Buettneria (Koskinonodon) maleriensis (ROY CHOWDHURY, 1965) SENGUPTA, 2002
Holotype: ISI A 56
Locality: Achlapur No. 2, Pranhita Godavari Valley, Andhra Pradesh State, India.
Horizon: Tiki Formation (old Maleri Formation).
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Carnian-Early Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material: Fragmentary skull.
Paratypes:
ISI A. 1, ISI A. 2, ISI A. 3, ISI A 4, ISI A. 6: Fragmentary skulls.
ISI A. 5: Left squamosal.
ISI A. 9: Interclavicle.
ISI A. 10: Left clavicle.
ISI A. 13: Atlas.
ISI A. 14: 4 vertebrae.
ISI A. 16: Right ischium.
ISI A. 17: Left humerus.
Locality: Achlapur No. 1., Pranhita Godavari Valley, Andhra Pradesh State, India.
Horizon: Lower Maleri Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
ISI A. 7: Fragmentary skull.
ISI A. 11: Left clavicle.
ISI A. 15: 3 vertebrae.
Locality: Gampalpalli, Pranhita Godavari Valley, Andhra Pradesh State, India.
Horizon: Lower Maleri Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
ISI A. 8: Fragmentary skull.
ISI A. 12: Right clavicle.
Locality: Pranhita Godavari Valley, Andhra Pradesh State, India.
Horizon: Lower Maleri Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
K 33/630a:
K 33/606a:
K 33/602a:
TMM 31099-12B:
HUENE
Locality: From between Achlapur and Gampalpali, Maharastra State, India.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
K 33/611a: Right condyle and part of wall of braincase.
Locality: Achlapur Camp, Maharastra State, India.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
K 33/616a: Left interpartial.
K 33/616b: Left interparietal, tabular, supratemporal.
Locality: Maleri, Andhra Pradesh State, India.Horizon: Maleri Formation, Dewan group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Mahadeva series, Carnian-Middle Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material:
G 281/1-7: Part of an interclavicle.
K 33/630a: Part of left maxilla and jugal with border of orbit.
K 33/606a: Part of a clavicle.
K 33/638: Interclavicle.
K 33/629a: Interclavicle.
K 33/602a: Left condyle and part of wall of braincase.
K 33/630b: Part of mandible with sculpture.
K 33/606c: Lower half of right ilium.
Locality: Unknown, India.Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
K 33/629a: Intercentra of second and third vertebrae.
K 33/629b, K 33/629d, K 33/629f: Intercentrum of a caudal vertebrae.
K 33/629c: Intercentrum of atlas.
K 33629e: Intercentrum of sacral vertebra.
K 33/629g: Intercentrum of a dorsal vertebra.
K 33/629b: Left posterior corner of a skull with sculpture.
SENGUPTA, 1992
Locality: 1 ½ km south of Tiki village, 23°56’: 81°22’, Shadol district, Mahdya Pradesh State, India.
Horizon: The red clay beds of the Tiki Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Carnian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material:
GSI 53: Partial skull lacking the preorbital region and the snout.
ISI 2249: Fragment of an interclavicle.
Note: Originally described as a skulll roof bone by LYDEKKER, 1885ISI 3354, 2263: Fragments of lower jaw.