Alwalkeria
Field photograph to come
Alwalkeria
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- Lived
- 237 to 227 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Group
- Early dinosaurs
- Found in
- India
- Named by
- Chatterjee and Creisler 1994
Field notes
About Alwalkeria
Alwalkeria was an early dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic, 237 to 227 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Alwalkeria, from India. Its fossils come from the Maleri Formation. It was named by Chatterjee and Creisler in 1994.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
230 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Saurischia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Chatterjee and B. Creisler. 1994. Alwalkeria (Theropoda) and Morturneria (Plesiosauria), new names for preoccupied Walkeria Chatterjee, 1987 and Turneria Chatterjee and Small, 1989. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):142