Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti

Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902  after 1982) was an Indian geologist and palaentologist, who worked at Banaras Hindu University in the Geological Museum (now part of the Institute of Science).

In 1934, he was the first Indian to describe a species of dinosaur, Brachypodosaurus gravis (now considered dubious).[1] In 1935, he contested the interpretation of Lametasaurus indicus as an armoured dinosaur, arguing that it was a chimera.

In 1982, the Geological Society of India organised a Festschrift in his honour.[2]

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References

  1. Moore, Randy (23 July 2014). Dinosaurs by the Decades: A Chronology of the Dinosaur in Science and Popular Culture. Greenwood. p. 193. ISBN 978-0313393648. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  2. Chakravarti, D. K.; Bhattacharya, A. K.; Indian Geological Congress (1985). "Proceedings of Indian Geological IVth Session Congress, Varanasi, 1982 : a volume in honour of Prof. D.K. Chakravarti". New Delhi : Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers. Retrieved 27 May 2016.


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