Where: Telangana, India (19.2° N, 79.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° S, 38.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Maleri Formation), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• The lower Maleri Formation has been correlated on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy with the Scaphonyx-Exaeretodon-Herrerasaurus biozone of the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina and the Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone of the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil (e.g. Novas et al. 2011. Earth Env. Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 101:333-349). The relevant part of the Ischigualasto Formation has been dated as late Carnian in age on radioisotopic data (e.g. Martinez et al. 2011. Science 331: 206-210), and the lower Maleri Formation is commonly considered equivalent in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by S. Jain in the 1960s

• ISI: Indian Statistical Insitute, Kolkata

Primary reference: S. L. Jain. 1980. Freshwater xenacanthid (= pleuracanth) shark fossils from the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 21:39-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101863: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.01.2011

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