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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Brachypodosaurus
Say it like this: “BRAK-ee-POH-doh-SAWR-us”
Brachypodosaurus gravis
Brachypodosaurus ate plants and moved in a way the fossils do not settle. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in India.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1934 · Chakravarti, D. K.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- India · Lameta
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Not recorded
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Ornithischia
The story in short
The genus Brachypodosaurus dates to 1934, the year D. K. Chakravarti described it. The name means “short-footed lizard.”
Fossils referred to Brachypodosaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from India, including the Lameta Formation. It was a herbivore. A habitual gait is not settled.
The fossils of Brachypodosaurus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Ornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Alocodon
Alocodon kuehnei
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago
Amtosaurus
Amtosaurus magnus
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian · Turonian) · roughly 100.5 to 89.8 million years ago
Archaeocursor
Archaeocursor asiaticus
Early Jurassic (Sinemurian · Pliensbachian) · roughly 199.5 to 184.2 million years ago