https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Kranosaura Kranosaura - Revision history 2026-11-15T18:38:19Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kranosaura&diff=226994&oldid=prev ->Citation bot: Alter: volume. Add: pmc-embargo-date, pmc, pages, issue. Removed proxy/dead URL that duplicated identifier. Formatted dashes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Prehistoric reptile genera | #UCB_Category 388/399 2021-10-14T07:24:05Z <p>Alter: volume. Add: pmc-embargo-date, pmc, pages, issue. Removed proxy/dead URL that duplicated identifier. Formatted <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:ENDASH" class="extiw" title="wp:ENDASH">dashes</a>. | <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">Use this bot</a>. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs</a>. | Suggested by Abductive | <a href="/wiki/Category:Prehistoric_reptile_genera" title="Category:Prehistoric reptile genera">Category:Prehistoric reptile genera</a> | #UCB_Category 388/399</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Extinct genus of archosauriform reptile}}<br /> {{Speciesbox<br /> | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]], &lt;br&gt;~{{fossilrange|Norian}}<br /> | image =<br /> | image_caption =<br /> | display_parents = 3<br /> | genus = Kranosaura <br /> | parent_authority = [[Sterling Nesbitt|Nesbitt]] &#039;&#039;et al.&#039;&#039;, [[2021 in reptile paleontology|2021]]<br /> | species = kuttyi<br /> | authority = Nesbitt &#039;&#039;et al.&#039;&#039;, 2021<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Kranosaura&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is an extinct genus of [[archosauriformes|archosauriform]] [[reptile]] from the [[Late Triassic]] [[Upper Maleri Formation]] of [[India]]. It contains a single species, &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;K. kuttyi&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;, described in 2021 by [[Sterling Nesbitt]] &#039;&#039;et al&#039;&#039;.&lt;ref name=Nesbitt2021&gt;{{Cite journal|last1=Nesbitt|first1=S. J. |last2=Stocker |first2=M. R. |last3=Chatterjee |first3=S. |last4=Horner |first4=J. R. |last5=Goodwin |first5=M. B. |year=2021 |title=A remarkable group of thick‐headed Triassic Period archosauromorphs with a wide, possibly Pangean distribution |journal=[[Journal of Anatomy]] |volume=239 |issue=1 |pages=184–206 |doi=10.1111/joa.13414 |pmid=33660262 |pmc=8197959 |pmc-embargo-date=July 1, 2023 }}&lt;/ref&gt; It has an unusually domed head reminiscent of the later [[pachycephalosauria]]n [[dinosaur]]s in an example of [[convergent evolution]], similar to that of &#039;&#039;[[Triopticus]]&#039;&#039;.&lt;ref name=&quot;stockeretal2016&quot;&gt;{{cite journal | first1 = M.R. | last1 = Stocker | first2 = S.J. | last2 = Nesbitt | first3 = K.E. | last3 = Criswell | first4 = W.G. | last4 = Parker | first5 = L.M. | last5 = Witmer | first6 = T.B. | last6 = Rowe | first7 = R. | last7 = Ridgely | first8 = M.A. | last8 = Brown | title = A Dome-Headed Stem Archosaur Exemplifies Convergence among Dinosaurs and Their Distant Relatives | journal = Current Biology | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.066 | date = 2016 | volume=26 | issue = 19 | pages=2674–2680 | pmid=27666971| doi-access = free }}&lt;/ref&gt; &#039;&#039;Kranosaura&#039;&#039; was also the [[sister taxon]] to &#039;&#039;Triopticus&#039;&#039;, of which it forms the new clade [[Protopyknosia]].&lt;ref name=Nesbitt2021 /&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Reptile-stub}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Archosauriforms]]<br /> [[Category:Late Triassic genus extinctions]]<br /> [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2021]]<br /> [[Category:Prehistoric reptile genera]]</div> ->Citation bot