Did dinosaurs roamed India? The answer is, India was once home to biggest and fearsome dinosaurs that we are glad got extinct long ago.
Many of us think or wonder whether these terrible lizards roamed only Americas, Europe and Africa. Many Indians would be surprised to note that these lizards may have walked in the backyard of our houses, playgrounds and roads millions ago.
Many prehistoric fossils are still buried deep in the earth, but its on our will to dig them out. Here is the list of 5 ferocious creatures that once roamed on the Indian land.
1. Rajasaurus
Rajasaurus is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of India, containing one species, Rajasaurus nermadensis. The bones were exclavated from Lameta foundation in the Gujrat state of western India, probably inhibiting Narmada River valley.
In 2010, Paleontologist Gregory S. Paul estimated the length of Rajasaurus at 11 metres and weight 4.4 metric tons.Rajasaurus had a low horn on its forehead that is primarily made of nasal bone more than frontal, unlike the horn on Majungasaurus. The horn could have been used as display or head butting other Rajasaurus.
Rajasaurus has been found in the Lameta formation, a rock unit radiometrically dated to the Masstrichtian age of the latest cretaceous representing an arid and semi arid landscape with a river flowing through it.
2. Barapasaurus
Barapasaurus is a genus of basal sauropod dinosaur from early Jurassic rocks in India. The only species is B.tagorei.Barapasaurus comes from lower part of Kota formation, that dates back to the Sinemurian and Pleinsbachian stages of early Jurassic. Barapasaurus is one of the earliest known sauropod.
All known fossils comes from a single locality in the vicinity of the village of Pochampally (Nalgonda District, Telangana, India). The first bones were discovered in 1958, but most specimens were unearthed in 1960 and 1961. In 1975, the finds were described scientifically by paleontologist Sohan Jain and his colleagues.
Barapasaurus comes from clay and sandstone that comes from lower part of the Kota formation.
3. Indosaurus
Indosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur once lived in India. It lived about 69 to 66 million year ago, in the Maastrichtian division of Late Cretaceous. It weight roughly 700 kg.
The fossil evidence from Jabalpur, India. The cranium suggests that Indosaurus may had horns above the eyes, although all the fossil evidence has since been lost. Indosaurus may have been related to the unusual South American dinosaur, Carnotaurus, then India had not been a separate continent for the previous 100 million years.
4. Indosuchus
Indosuchus is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period, a theropod related to Abelisaurus. Like most theropods, Indosuchus was a bipedal carnivore. It was about 7 metre long, weight about 1.2 tons, and had a crested skull, flattened on the top.
5. Kotasaurus
Kotasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the early Jurassic period. The only known species is Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis. It was discovered in the kota formation of Telangana, India. So far the remains of 12 individuals are known.
Kotasaurus is one of the most basal sauropod known. The body length is estimated to be roughly nine metres and weights 2.5 tons. All fossils come from an area near the village Yamanpalli, Telangana, approximately forty kilometre north to the Barapasaurus type locality. In 1988 they were named and described by P.M. Yadagiri as a new genus and species of sauropod.
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