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'''Brachypodosaurus''' (meaning "short-footed lizard") was a genus of thyreophoran dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Lameta formation (Maastrichtian) in India. The only remains discovered so far for this animal has been a fossil humerus, named ''Brachypodosaurus gravis'' by Chakravati in 1934, and originally described as a stegosaur.^[1]
This ornithischian could have been either an ankylosaur (an armoured dinosaur) or a stegosaur (a plated dinosaur). The name ''Brachypodosaurus'' is, however, considered as a ''nomen dubium'' as so few remains of the animal have been found.^[2] Wilson et al., cast further doubts on the stegosaurian affinity of the genus in 2003.^[3] The other Late Cretaceous genus from India originally described as a stegosaur, ''Dravidosaurus'', is also a ''nomen dubium''.

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1. Chakravarti, D. K., 1934, "On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore", Q.J. MINERAL. METALLURG. SOC. INDIA, 30; 75-79
2. Maryanska T., 1977. "Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia", Palaeontologia Polonica 37:85-151

3. Wilson, J. A., P. C. Sereno, S. Srivastava, D. K. Bhatt, A. Khosla, and A. Sahni. 2003. "A new abelisaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lameta Formation (Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of India", Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology of the University of Michigan, 31:1–42