Also known as Ariyalur, Kallamedu
Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.2° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 46.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kossmaticeras theobaldianum ammonoid zone, Trichinopoly Group, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• Kossmaticeras theobaldianum Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, brown claystone and lithified, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: P. Yadagiri and K. Ayyasami. 1979. A new stegosaurian dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous sediments of south India. Journal of the Geologicial Society of India 20(11):521-530 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 46393: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 12.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoides" = Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide, Puzosia sp.
"Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoides" = Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite | |
Kossmaticeras bhavani, "Kossmaticeras theobaldianum" = Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum
Kossmaticeras bhavani ammonite
"Kossmaticeras theobaldianum" = Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum Stolickza 1865 ammonite | |
Placenticeras tamilicum ammonite | |
Reptilia | |
Dravidosaurus blanfordi n. gen. n. sp.
Dravidosaurus blanfordi n. gen. n. sp. Yadagiri and Ayyasami 1979 reptile |