Dahalokely
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Dahalokely Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Abelisauroidea |
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†Dahalokely Farke & Sertich, 2013 |
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†Dahalokely tokana Farke & Sertich, 2013 |
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Dahalokely is an extinct genus of carnivorous abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar.
In 2007, during an expedition by Andrew Farke to the north of Madagascar, Joseph Sertich discovered near Antsiranana the remains of a theropod new to science. In 2010, these were completely excavated by Sertich and Liva Ratsimbaholison. The fossils were then transported to the United States of America to be prepared, repaired and scanned in the Stony Brook University. After casts had been made and stored in the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology with inventory number RAM 16010, the original fossils were returned to Madagascar and added to the collection of the University of Antananarivo.
The type species Dahalokely tokana was named by Farke and Sertich in 2013. The generic name Dahalokely means "small thief" in Malagasy, deriving from its estimated length of 3.5 m (11.5 ft) smaller than those of known abelisaurids. The specific name tokana means "lonely" in the same language in reference to the isolation of the Madagascan subcontinent. During the Turonian, Madagascar and India were part of the same landmass that had separated from the rest of Gondwana. Dahalokely is the only dinosaur known from Madagascar when the island was separate from Gondwana but still connected with India, forming Indo-Madagascar. In the ZooBank the genus has the Life Science Identifier 8147803A-D4BE-4BA9-9701-D853E 37DE411 and the species the LSID AFAE32BB-123A-45D4-B931-4FF2A ABAF41C.
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