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Maleriraptor is an extinct genus of herrerasaurian saurischian dinosaurs from the Late Triassic (Norian) Upper Maleri Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, M. kuttyi, known from a partial skeleton.

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Maleriraptor is an extinct genus of herrerasaurian saurischian dinosaurs from the Late Triassic (Norian) Upper Maleri Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, M. kuttyi, known from a partial skeleton.

== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Type locality (biology)|Type locality (a) and [[stratigraphic occurrence (b) of Maleriraptor]] The Maleriraptor holotype specimen, ISIR 282, was collected at some point prior to 1985 from outcrops of the Upper Maleri Formation of the Pranhita–Godavari Basin near Annaram in south-central India. The specimen consists of the first , part of the second sacral rib, a vertebra representing a caudosacral element or the first in the series, an anterior (toward the front) caudal vertebra, the right , both ends of the right , and part of the left pubis. ISIR 282 is accessioned at the Indian Statistical Institute.

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