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Pradhania

Say it: prah-DAH-nee-uh

Name means: “named after Dhuiya Pradhan, a fossil collector at the Indian Statistical Institute”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Jurassic

Pradhania was a small, long-necked dinosaur that lived in India during the Early Jurassic. It walked on two legs and ate plants, using its long neck to reach leaves high up.1

Lived

201 to 193 million years ago4

Early Jurassic

Fossils found in

Andhra Pradesh, India2

Food

Plants2

Length

up to 4 m1

estimated

Weight

up to 240 kg3

largest known specimen

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 8 big dogs

as long as 4 dogs nose to tailas long as 22 bananas end to endas heavy as 48 watermelons

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Pradhania was only about 4 meters (13 feet) long, making it a small sauropodomorph.1

Its fossils were found in the Upper Dharmaram Formation of India, which dates to the Early Jurassic.1

Scientists originally thought Pradhania was a basal sauropodomorph, but later studies placed it in the family Massospondylidae.1

The only known specimen of Pradhania is a partial skeleton, including parts of the skull and limbs.4

Pradhania lived between 201 and 193 million years ago, during the Hettangian and Sinemurian ages.2

The name Pradhania honors Dhuiya Pradhan, who collected fossils for the Indian Statistical Institute.1

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Scientific name: Pradhania
Named by: Kutty et al. 20074
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Massospondylidae4
Classification: Sauropodomorpha4
Age of the rocks: 201 to 193 million years (Hettangian / Sinemurian)4
Rock formations: Dharmaram4
Countries: India4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Pradhania was named in 2007 by T. S. Kutty, Sankar Chatterjee, Peter M. Galton, and Paul Upchurch. The type specimen, a partial skeleton, was found near Krishnapur in Andhra Pradesh, India.1 4
Still debated: Scientists are not sure whether Pradhania belongs to Massospondylidae or Plateosauridae, as different studies place it in different families.2

Where the facts come from

Pradhania (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Pradhania gracilis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Pradhania in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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