Abstract
Vitakrisaurus saraiki abelisauroid theropod dinosaurs reported from Pakistan and extended distribution into India. Vitakrisaurus saraiki is medium to large sized theropod which is represented by associated vertebral and limb elements and especially hand elements. Out of 14 small to large bodied theropods from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, only less than half of these are restricted to some common elements. Vitakrisaurus saraiki theropod of Pakistan is based on associated vertebral and limb elements especially hand including articulated carpals, metacarpals, phalanges and claws which are significant for Gondwanan paleobiogeographic link, comparisons and systematic.
Highlights
Two theropod dinosaurs were known from Pakistan
Vitakrisaurus saraiki abelisauroid theropod dinosaurs reported from Pakistan and extended distribution into India
Vitakrisaurus saraiki theropod of Pakistan is based on associated vertebral and limb elements especially hand including articulated carpals, metacarpals, phalanges and claws which are significant for Gondwanan paleobiogeographic link, comparisons and systematic
Summary
Systematic paleontology of Vitakrisaurus saraiki is as follows: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Abelisauroidea, Vitakrisauridae [1], Vitakrisaurus [1], Vitakrisaurus saraiki [1] (Figure 1). Holotype and lectotype specimens were collected from the mid Bor 2 locality and referred specimens (Figure 1) were collected from the Shalghara 3 locality found in the uppermost Maastrichtian (67 66 Ma ago) Vitakri Lameta Formation of the Fort Munro Group, Barkhan district, Balochistan, Sulaiman or middle Indus basin, central Pakistan. Genus Vitakrisaurus honors the Vitakri host locality; saurus means lizard. Species name is in honor of the Saraiki language of locals of Sulaiman Range. Hosted in the Quetta museum of Geological Survey of Pakistan. Amphicoelous caudal vertebra with two chevrons from India [2] was referred to Vitakrisaurus saraiki
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