Kranosaura

Kranosaura is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Late Triassic Maleri Formation of India. It contains a single species, K. kuttyi, described in 2021 by Sterling Nesbitt "et al". It has an unusually domed head reminiscent of the later pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs in an example of convergent evolution, similar to that of "Triopticus". "Kranosaura" was also the sister taxon to "Triopticus", of which it forms the new clade Protopyknosia.