| Kranosaura Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Clade: | † Protopyknosia |
| Genus: | † Kranosaura Nesbitt et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †K. kuttyi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kranosaura kuttyi Nesbitt et al., 2021 | |
Kranosaura is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Late Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of India. It contains a single species, K. kuttyi.
The genus is based on two domes of 9 centimetres (3.5 in) long, discovered by Tharavat S. Kutty in the 1990s and described in 2021 by Nesbitt et al. [1]
It had an unusually domed head reminiscent of the later pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs in an example of convergent evolution, similar to that of Triopticus . [2] Kranosaura was the sister taxon to Triopticus, with which it forms the clade Protopyknosia. [1]
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