This is a list of dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s whose remains have been recovered from India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 or Madagascar

Madagascar

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. Though widely separated today, India and Madagascar were connected throughout much of the Mesozoic

Mesozoic

The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...

 and shared similar dinosaur faunas, distinct from what has been found on other modern Africa

Africa

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n and Asia

Asia

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n landmasses.

List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs

Name	Period	Location	Diet	Notes
Alwalkeria Alwalkeria Alwalkeria is a genus of basal saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of India. It was a small bipedal omnivore.This dinosaur was originally named Walkeria maleriensis by Sankar Chatterjee in 1987, in honor of famous British paleontologist Alick Walker and the Maleri Formation, in which its...	Triassic	India	omnivore	—
Archaeodontosaurus Archaeodontosaurus Archaeodontosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. Its fossils were found in Madagascar. The type species, Archaeodontosaurus descouensi, was described in September 2005. The specific name honours the collector, Didier Descouens...	Jurassic	Madagascar	herbivore	—
Barapasaurus Barapasaurus Barapasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Early Jurassic rocks of India. The specific name for its only species, B. tagorei, means 'Tagore's', which honors Bengali poet, writer, painter, and musician Rabindranath Tagore.-Description:...	Jurassic	India	herbivore	—
Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus is an dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic.The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffossus means "undermined" in Latin, a reference to the fact that pleurocoels had hollowed out...	Jurassic	Madagascar	herbivore	—
Brachypodosaurus Brachypodosaurus Brachypodosaurus was a genus of thyreophoran dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Lameta formation in India...	Cretaceous	India	herbivore	—
Bruhathkayosaurus Bruhathkayosaurus Bruhathkayosaurus might have been the largest dinosaur that ever lived. The accuracy of this claim, however, has been mired in controversy and debate...	Cretaceous	India	herbivore	—
Coeluroides Coeluroides Coeluroides is a nomen dubium. A small, little-known dinosaur, specifically a theropod, Coeluroides lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India. It is known from scattered tail vertebrae discovered in the Lameta Formation...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Compsosuchus Compsosuchus Compsosuchus is an extinct genus of abelisaurian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. It lived in India. Compsosuchus was described in 1933 by von Huene and Matley. The type species is C. solus. The genus is often considered a nomen dubium.-References:* at Dino Russ's Lair...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Dandakosaurus Dandakosaurus Dandakosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from Andhra Pradesh, India. It lived 183 - 175 million years ago in the Toarcian, Early Jurassic. It is currently classified as Neoceratosauria incertae sedis but may in fact be a ceratosaurid or basal tetanuran.The type species, D. indicus, was named...	Jurassic	India	carnivore	—
Dryptosauroides Dryptosauroides Dryptosauroides is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a large theropod possibly belonging to the Abelisauridae....	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Indosaurus Indosaurus Indosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur once living in what is now India. It lived approximately 69 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian division of the Late Cretaceous...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Indosuchus Indosuchus Indosuchus is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period , a theropod related to Abelisaurus. Like most theropods, Indosuchus was a bipedal carnivore...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Isisaurus Isisaurus Isisaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. Isisaurus was a sauropod , which lived in what is now India....	Cretaceous	India	herbivore	—
Jainosaurus Jainosaurus Jainosaurus is a large titanosaurian dinosaur of India and wider Asia, which lived in the Maastrichtian ....	Cretaceous	India	herbivore	—
Jaklapallisaurus Jaklapallisaurus Jaklapallisaurus is a genus of herbivore plateosaurian sauropodomorph dinosaur. It is a plateosaurid which lived during the Late Triassic period in what is now Andhra Pradesh, central India...	Triassic	India	omnivore	—
Jubbulpuria Jubbulpuria Jubbulpuria is the name given to a dubious genus of small dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of India.The genus was in 1932 named by Friedrich von Huene. The generic name refers to Jabalpur in the vicinity of which the fossils were found. The type species, Jubbulpuria tenuis, was described by von...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Kotasaurus Kotasaurus Kotasaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic period, about 208 million to 188 million years ago. It was an early sauropod, sharing some similarities with prosauropods...	Jurassic	India	herbivore	—
Laevisuchus Laevisuchus Laevisuchus is a genus of abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.Its remains were discovered by Charles Alfred Matley near Jabalpur in Maastrichtian deposits in the Lameta Formation in India, and named and described by paleontologists Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1933. The...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Lametasaurus Lametasaurus Lametasaurus named for the Lameta Formation, Jabalpur, India, is the generic name given to a possible dubious dinosaur species. Originally it indicated a possible chimera composed of several different animals....	(unknown)	India	(unknown)	(chimera Chimera (paleontology) In paleontology, a chimera is a fossil which was reconstructed with elements coming from more than a single species of animal. A now classic example of chimera is Protoavis.-List of paleontological chimeras:*Brontosaurus*Lametasaurus... )
Lamplughsaura Lamplughsaura Lamplughsaura is a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age Dharmaram Formation of India, between 196 to 190 million years ago. The type species is L...	Jurassic	India	herbivore	—
Lapparentosaurus Lapparentosaurus Lapparentosaurus is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. Its fossils were found in Madagascar.In 1895 Richard Lydekker named a new species of Bothriospondylus, B. madagascariensis based on fossils found before 1894 by J.T. Last in the Majunga Basin in layers of the...	Jurassic	Madagascar	herbivore	—
Majungasaurus Majungasaurus Majungasaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 65.5 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Only one species has been identified...	Cretaceous	Madagascar	carnivore	—
Masiakasaurus Masiakasaurus Masiakasaurus was a small predatory theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. It was named in 2001 by Scott D. Sampson, Matthew Carrano, and Catherine A. Forster. Unlike most theropods, the front teeth of Masiakasaurus projected forward instead of straight down...	Cretaceous	Madagascar	carnivore	—
Nambalia Nambalia Nambalia is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic period in what is now Andhra Pradesh, central India...	Triassic	India	omnivore	—
Ornithomimoides Ornithomimoides Ornithomimoides is a dubious genus of small theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous period of India. Two species have been identified, though they are known only from isolated vertebrae. O. barasimlensis is known from five dorsal vertebrae, and O. mobilis from four smaller vertebrae, found at...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Orthogoniosaurus Orthogoniosaurus Orthogoniosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Jabalpur, India...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Pradhania Pradhania Pradhania is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age Upper Dharmaram Formation of India. It was first named by T. S. Kutty, Sankar Chatterjee, Peter M. Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2007 and the type species is Pradhania gracilis...	Jurassic	India	herbivore?	—
Rahonavis Rahonavis Rahonavis is a genus of bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now northwestern Madagascar. It is known from a partial skeleton found in Maevarano Formation rocks at a quarry near Berivotra, Mahajanga Province...	Cretaceous	Madagascar	carnivore	—
Rahiolisaurus Rahiolisaurus Rahiolisaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur which existed in India during the Late Cretaceous period. It was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered from the Lameta Formation in the Indian state of Gujarat...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Rajasaurus Rajasaurus Rajasaurus is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurian theropod dinosaur with an unusual head crest. Between 1982 and 1984, its fossilized bones were discovered by Suresh Srivastava of the Geological Survey of India...	Cretaceous	India	carnivore	—
Rapetosaurus Rapetosaurus Rapetosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Only one species Rapetosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period....	Cretaceous	Madagascar	herbivore	—
Titanosaurus Titanosaurus Titanosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur, first described by Lydekker in 1877. It is known from the Maastrichtian Lameta Formation of India...	Cretaceous	India	herbivore	—

Key

Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

Invalid

Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...

Criteria for inclusion

• The creature must appear on the List of dinosaurs.
• Fossils of the creature must have been found in India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
   or Madagascar
  Madagascar
  The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
  
  .
• This list is a complement to :Category:Dinosaurs of India and Madagascar.

Timeline

This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above. Time is measured in Ma, megaannum, along the x-axis.