Outline: a typical theropod
Indosuchus
"Indian crocodile"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 7 m (23 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- India
- Named by
- Huene 1933
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical theropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Indosuchus
What it was like
Indosuchus was an abelisaurid, a two-legged predator about 7 meters (23 feet) long, with a short, deep skull and tiny arms. Despite its name, it was a dinosaur, not a crocodile. It is known mainly from pieces of the skull.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now India. Its bones come from the Lameta Formation, where it shared the land with the horned predator Rajasaurus and the titanosaurs Isisaurus and Jainosaurus.
How it was found
Huene named Indosuchus in 1933.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1):1-74