Maleri village (GSI) (Triassic to of India)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Maleri Formation (Gondwana Group), 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: fluvial; red claystone

• "red clays"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the GSI

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1885. The Reptilia & Amphibia of the Maleria & Denwa Groups. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica, Series IV. Indian Pretertiary Vertebrata 1(5):1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112285: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.07.2011, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus nageshwarai n. sp.4 Shah and Satsangi 1970 lungfish
GSI 18290, 18291
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Metoposaurus maleriensis" = Panthasaurus maleriensis1
"Metoposaurus maleriensis" = Panthasaurus maleriensis1 Chowdhury 1965 tetrapod
Cranial and postcranial material
 Temnospondyli -
Pachygonia incurvata Huxley 1865 tetrapod
Mandibular fragments
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Archosauromorpha indet.2 Huene 1946 archosauromorph
GSI K 33/606b, dorsal vertebra
 Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
"Hyperodapedon huxleyi n. sp." = Hyperodapedon huxleyi, "Paradapedon indicus n. sp." = Hyperodapedon huxleyi3
"Hyperodapedon huxleyi n. sp." = Hyperodapedon huxleyi Lydekker 1881 rhynchosaur
Cranial and postcranial remains
"Paradapedon indicus n. sp." = Hyperodapedon huxleyi3 Lydekker 1881 rhynchosaur
Cranial and postcranial remains
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
cf. Typothorax sp.3 Cope 1875 aetosaur
GSI K 33/640f, g, osteoderms
 Phytosauria -
Phytosauria indet.2 Jaeger 1828 archosaur
GSI K 33/621b, 281/1a, dorsal vertebrae
Brachysuchus maleriensis n. sp.3 Huene 1940 archosaur
aff. Brachysuchus maleriensis3 Huene 1940 archosaur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker 1885 archosaur
Fragmentary material; this material was originally the holotype Chatterjee (2001) later designated more complete material from PaleoDB locality 106521 as neotype
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
Vertebrae, phalanges and teeth
 Saurischia -
Saurischia indet.2 Seeley 1888 saurischian
GSI K 33/621a, tibia
cf. Saurischia indet.2 Seeley 1888 saurischian
K 33/608a femur