Pakhera tracksite (Bhuj) (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.2° N, 69.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 34.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Bhuj Formation), Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• basal part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, ferruginous sandstone and siltstone

• "a hard, compact, indurated, ferruginous sandstone intercalated with siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Z. G. Ghevariya and C. Srikarni. 1990. Dinosaur foot tracks from Cretaceous rocks of Kachchh Gujarat, India. In A. Sahni & A. Jolly (ed.), Cretaceous Event Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Indian Nonmarine Strata. Contributions from the Seminar cum Workshop, IGCP Projects 216 and 245 94-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 140487: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 11.03.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
 Saurischia -