Dryptosauroides (meaning "similar in form to Dryptosaurus") is a dubious genus of possibly abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lameta Formation of India. It has been estimated at long and in weight.Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Barcelona, Spain: Larousse. p. 256.
Its fossils consist of six caudal vertebrae, together forming type specimens GSI IM K20/334, 609, K27/549, 601, 602 and 626. The vertebrae, originally incorrectly identified as dorsals, are long. These remains are today commonly considered to be indistinguishable from those of other theropods from the same formation. A cervical vertebra, four rib heads, and a dorsal rib have also been assigned to Dryptosauroides (D. sp.), but they may have belonged to a different theropod.
The type species, Dryptosauroides grandis, was named by Friedrich von Huene in 1932Huene, F. von, 1932, Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia: ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographie für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Parts I and II, ser. I, 4:1-361 and described by him and Charles Alfred Matley in 1933.Huene, F. von, and Matley, C. A. (1933) "The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the central provinces of India" Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21: 1-74 The specific name grandis means "large" in Latin.
See also
Timeline of ceratosaur research
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