Outline: a typical theropod
Vitakridrinda
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Vitakrisauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan
- Named by
- Malkani 2004
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Vitakridrinda
What it was like
Vitakridrinda was named as a meat-eating dinosaur, perhaps an abelisaurid, from a few bones and teeth.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Pakistan. Its bones come from the Vitakri Formation.
How it was found
Malkani named it in 2004. Its bones are fragmentary, and many scientists doubt how much can be said about it.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Vitakrisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. S. Malkani. 2004. Saurischian dinosaurs from Late Cretaceous of Pakistan. In S. S. Hussain & H. D. Akbar (eds.), 5th Pakistan Geological Congress, Islamabad. National Geological Society of Pakistan, Pakistan Museum of Natural History (Pakistan Science Foundation)