Coeluroides

Coelurus-like

• Coelurus · Latin/Greek · hollow tail (the genus name it resembles)
• -oides · Greek · resembling, having the form of

The name combines a reference to the small theropod genus Coelurus (itself from Greek koilos, "hollow," and oura, "tail") with the Greek suffix -oides, meaning "resembling" or "like." It was thus coined to indicate a dinosaur resembling or related to Coelurus. The name reflects the 19th- and early 20th-century practice of grouping lightly built theropods together under "coelurosaur"-type names.

Named by

Huene and Matley

Year named

1933

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Lameta Formation, India

Coeluroides is a nomen dubium. It was described by Friedrich von Huene and Charles Alfred Matley in 1933 from fragmentary vertebrae found in the Lameta Formation of India. The material is too incomplete to confidently assign it to any known theropod family, and it cannot be meaningfully diagnosed; most modern reviews treat it as an indeterminate theropod of doubtful validity.