Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.9° N, 81.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 51.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Lower Tiki Member (Tiki Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Red mudstone beds above and below the Unio bed exposed near Jora village." The paper references two separate layers in this same locality, above and below an Unio bivalve bed. Since the two layers are indistinguishable in age and formation, both are included here.

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•This paper says Carnian-Norian but cites older references than Mukherjee and Ray (2012, also linked to this collection) which states Tiki Fm is Carnian.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; concretionary, red, calcareous mudstone and concretionary, red, calcareous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Geological Society of India in 2013-15

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. Kumar and K. M. Sharma. 2019. Micro and mega-vertebrate fossils from the Late Triassic Tiki Formation, South Rewa Gondwana Basin, India: palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographic implications. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 64(2):151-168 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 207798: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 11.02.2020

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