Jaklapallisaurus

Jaklapalli lizard

• Jaklapalli · Telugu (place name) · village near the fossil locality in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana), India
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines Jaklapalli, a village near the site in India where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for "lizard". It marks the place of discovery. The only named species is J. asymmetrica.

Named by

Novas et al.

Year named

2011

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Norian

Found in

Upper Maleri Formation, Pranhita–Godavari Basin, India

A early sauropodomorph dinosaur, generally considered to be a plateosaurid or a close relative of them. The stage is given as Norian, but the age of the Upper Maleri Formation is not firmly fixed.