Where: Andhra Pradesh, India (18.8° N, 79.7° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 48.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yerrapalli Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Vertebrate biostratigraphy (e.g. Bandyopadhyay & Sengupta 1999. J. Afr. Earth Sciences 29:233-241) has been used to argue for a middle/late Anisian age for the Yerrapalli, on the basis of similarities to the fauna of the Manda Beds of Tanzania
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1964, 1965
Collection methods: mechanical,
• ISI: Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Primary reference: T. R. Chowdhury. 1970. Two new dicynodonts from the Triassic Yerrapalli Formation of central India. Palaeontology 13:133-144 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105239: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Wadiasaurus indicus n. gen. n. sp.
Wadiasaurus indicus n. gen. n. sp. Chowdhury 1970 dicynodont ISI R38, skull (holotype). Paratypes: ISI R38/1: lower jaw; ISI R40 and ISI R41: part of left and right quadrate respectively; ISI R173/1: parietal crest; ISI R175/83: part of occipital plate; ISI R175/122: right squamosal. Referred specimens: ISI R38 (2-5); ISI R39/1; ISI R41 (1-301); ISI Rl71; ISI R172; ISI R172 (1-15); ISI R173; ISI R173/(2-5); ISI R174; ISI R174/1; ISI R175/(1-417), abundant postcranial material
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