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	'''''Compsosuchus''''' (meaning "~~pretty~~ crocodile") is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[noasauridae\|noasaurid]] [[dinosaur]] ~~originally classed as an [[abelisauria]]n~~. It lived during the Late [[Cretaceous]] in [[India]].		'''''Compsosuchus''''' (meaning "elegant crocodile") is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[noasauridae\|noasaurid]] [[dinosaur]]. It lived during the Late [[Cretaceous]] in [[India]].

	==Discovery and naming==		==Discovery and naming==

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}}
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|name = ''Compsosuchus''
|fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|69|66|earliest=70.6}}
| image = Compsosuchus solus.jpg
| image_caption = Vertebra
|genus = Compsosuchus
|species = solus
|authority = Matley & Huene, 1933
|parent_authority = Matley & [[Friedrich von Huene|Huene]], 1933
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'''''Compsosuchus''''' (meaning "pretty crocodile") is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[noasauridae|noasaurid]] [[dinosaur]] originally classed as an [[abelisauria]]n. It lived during the Late [[Cretaceous]] in [[India]].

==Discovery and naming==
''Compsosuchus'' was described in 1933 by [[Friedrich von Huene|von Huene]] and [[Charles Alfred Matley|Matley]].<ref>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</ref> The [[type species]] is ''C. solus'', and the type and only specimen is '''GSI K27/578''', an [[axis (anatomy)|axis]] with an articulated axial intersection. The genus is often considered a ''[[nomen dubium]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Compsosuchus|url=http://www.dinosaurier-info.de/animals/dinosaurs/pages_c/compsosuchus.php|work=Dinosaurier-Info.De|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228012800/http://www.dinosaurier-info.de/animals/dinosaurs/pages_c/compsosuchus.php|archive-date=28 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Classification==
Although classified as an [[Allosauridae|allosaurid]] by Huene and Matley (1933) and Molnar ''et al.'' (1990) because of superficial similarities with the axis vertebrae of ''[[Allosaurus]]'', a 2004 review of [[Lameta Formation]] theropods found it to be similar to members of [[Abelisauroidea]], including ''[[Carnotaurus]]'' and ''[[Indosaurus]]'', necessitating the placement of ''Compsosuchus'' as an abelisauroid.<ref>F. E. Novas, F. L. Agnolin, and S. Bandyopadhyay, 2004, "Cretaceous theropods from India: a review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933)", Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(1): 67-103</ref><ref>Molnar, Kurzanov and Dong, 1990. Carnosauria. In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska (eds.). The Dinosauria. University of California Press. 169-209.</ref> It has since been classed in the [[Noasauridae]].{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

==See also==
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* [[Timeline of ceratosaur research]]

==References==
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[[Category:Abelisaurids]]
[[Category:Late Cretaceous dinosaurs]]
[[Category:Dinosaurs of India and Madagascar]]
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[[Category:Taxa named by Charles Alfred Matley]]

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