Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti Explained

Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902after 1985) 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]

Publications

• On a Stegadon molar from the older Gangetic alluvium near Benares . Chakravarti . Dhirendra Kishore . Q. J. Min. Met. Soc. India . 1931 . 3 . 115–124 . 9780813720272 . 28 May 2016. Cited in Charles Lewis Camp: Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1928-1933; Geological Society of America; 1940; ASIN B001O2KAIK
• Chakravarti . D. K. . 1934 . On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore . Quarterly Journal of the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India . 30 . 75–79.
• Is Lametasaurus indicus an armored dinosaur? . Chakravarti . D. K. . 1935 . . 30 . 5 . 176 . 138–141 . 10.2475/ajs.s5-30.176.138 . 1935AmJS...30..138C . subscription . 28 May 2016.
• A geological, palaeontological and phylogenetic study of the Elephantoidea of India, Pakistan and Burma: Part I Gomphotheriidae . Chakravarti . Dhirendra Kishore . J. Pal. Soc. India . 1957 . 2 . 83–94 . 9780813710921 . 28 May 2016. Cited in Camp, C. L., Allison H. J., Nichols, R. H.: Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1954-1958; Geological Society of America; 1 May 1964; ASIN B001OPDDKE

Notes and References

1. Book: Moore <!--authorlink=NOT the baseball player of that name-->, Randy . Dinosaurs by the Decades: A Chronology of the Dinosaur in Science and Popular Culture . 23 July 2014 . . 978-0313393648 . 193 . 27 May 2016.
2. Book: Proceedings of Indian Geological IVth Session Congress, Varanasi, 1982 : a volume in honour of Prof. D.K. Chakravarti . D. K. . Chakravarti . A. K. . Bhattacharya . Indian Geological Congress . New Delhi : Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers . 1985 . 14215358 . 27 May 2016.