rhynchosaur bonebed, Tiki village (Triassic of India)

Also known as Tikhi

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.9° N, 81.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 51.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tiki Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• The bonebed is about a meter thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; red mudstone

• "The mudstone unit hosting the rhynchosaur bonebed is interpreted to be a floodplain deposit that had been pedogenically modified similar to that seen in other mudstone units of the Tiki Formation."
• "mudrock"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• IITKGPR, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Primary reference: D. Mukherjee and S. Ray. 2012. Taphonomy of an Upper Triassic vertebrate bonebed: A new rhynchosaur (Reptilia; Archosauromorpha) accumulation from India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 333-334:75-91 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174029: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.10.2015, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Cynodontia indet.
Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet.
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2
Dinosauria indet.2 Owen 1842 dinosaur
claw; IITKGPR504
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
claws; IITKGPR502-503, 552-553
 Phytosauria -
Phytosauria indet.
Phytosauria indet. Jaeger 1828 archosaur
 Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Hyperodapedon tikiensis n. sp.1
Hyperodapedon tikiensis n. sp.1 Mukherjee and Ray 2015 rhynchosaur
IITKGPR36, a complete left maxillary tooth plate (holotype). Large number of referred specimens
1Mukherjee and Ray 2015; 2Rakshit et al. 2018