Bara Simla, Jabalpur [Carnosaur Bed] (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Jabalpur, Carnosaur Pocket

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.2° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 63.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnosaur Bed Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• found as a pocket/lens below the Lower/Main Limestone of the Lameta Group and at the top of the Greensand Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; glauconitic, green sandstone

• greensand with autochthonous glauconite; geology of "carnosaur bed" not described

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. A. Matley, B. Brown in 1917–1922; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

• initial collection by Matley, later by Brown

Primary reference: C. A. Matley. 1919. On the remains of carnivorous dinosaurs from the Lameta beds at Jubbulpore. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series 15:cxcviii-cxcix [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26373: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Abelisauroidea indet.1 Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
GSI K27/574, 589, 616
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.3, Indosuchus raptorius n. gen. n. sp.6, Indosaurus matleyi n. gen. n. sp.6, Lametasaurus indicus n. gen. n. sp.6, Ornithomimoides mobilis n. gen. n. sp.6, Ornithomimoides ? mobilis6, Dryptosauroides grandis n. gen. n. sp.6, Coeluroides largus n. gen. n. sp.6
Abelisauridae indet.3 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
said to belong to 2 species; GSI K27/538, 544 & 548 (maxillae), 710 (L pmx), 577 & 708 (R lacrimals); 575 (R squamosal); 535 & 581 (L jugals), 580 (R PO), 567, 688–689 & 698 (ectopterygoids), 691 (R Q), 576 & 687 (basioccipitals), 529, 538, 550, 573, 582–584, 700 & 709 (dentaries), 527 & 693 (articulars), 573, 583, 585, 620, 701–702 (teeth), 598 (dorsal centrum), 591 (axis), 572 ¶ 590 (cervical vertebrae), 533 & 554 (sacral vertebrae), 530, 532, 536, 593–594, 596, 705 (caudal vertebrae), 545, 566, 672–677, 679–680 (chevrons), 692 (gastralia), 546 & 686 (ischia), 558, 560, 563–564, 569–570, 618, 621, 627 (femora), 568 (L tibia), 540 & 620 (fibulae), 684 (R astragalus), 671 (R MT II), 557, 658 (MT III), 539, 656, 659–661 & 663–664 (MT IV), 651, 652 & 654 (pedal phalanges), 543, 551, 633 & 636 (pedal unguals), 668 (tarsal/carpal); K20/619 (R pmx), 362 (chevron), 396 (calcaneum), 399 (pedal ungual); K19/579, 581 (R tibiae), 336A, B (MT III); ca. 51 add’l. teeth & 37 add’l. pedal phalanges
Indosuchus raptorius n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K20/350 & K27/685, 690 (skull pieces)
Indosaurus matleyi n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K27/565 (braincase)
Lametasaurus indicus n. gen. n. sp.6 Matley 1924 ceratosaur
theropod with armor, as in Dynamosaurus
Ornithomimoides mobilis n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K27/586, 597, 600 & K20/610, 614 (dorsal vertebrae)
Ornithomimoides ? mobilis6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K27/599 (caudal vertebra)
Dryptosauroides grandis n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K20/334, 609 & K27/549, 601–602, 626 (dorsal vertebrae), K27/555 (cervical vertebra), K20/615 & K27/623–625 (anterior dorsal ribs)
Coeluroides largus n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K27/562, 574, 595 (dorsal vertebrae), 695 (vertebra)
 Theropoda -
Orthogoniosaurus matleyi n. gen. n. sp.5
Orthogoniosaurus matleyi n. gen. n. sp.5 Das-Gupta 1930 ceratosaur
 Theropoda - Noasauridae
Noasauridae indet.3 Bonaparte and Powell 1980 ceratosaur
GSI K27/579, 703 (teeth), 581 (sacrum), 542, 561, 605–611 & 712 (caudal vertebrae), 559 (R ilium), 526, 552, 662 & 669 (R tibia), 665 & 697 (MTs), 534, 639–641, 643–644, 646–647, 649–650, 655 & 694 (pedal phalanges), 629–632 (pedal ungual), 657 & 666–667 (MCs), 524, 642, 645 & 648 (manual phalanges); K20/612 (caudal vertebra), K20/337C (MT), 337A, B (pedal phalanges), 625 (pedal ungual), 626B (manual phalanx)
Noasauridae indet.2 Bonaparte and Powell 1980 ceratosaur
GSI K27/587 (posterior caudal vertebra)
Compsosuchus solus n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K27/578 (axis)
Jubbulpuria tenuis n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K20/612 & K27/614 (vertebrae)
Laevisuchus indicus n. gen. n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K20/613–614 & K27/696 (cervical vertebrae), K27/588 (dorsal vertebra)
? Ornithomimoides barasimlensis n. sp.6 Huene 1933 ceratosaur
GSI K27/531, 541, 604 & 682 (dorsal vertebrae)
 Theropoda -
? Coelurosauria indet.6 coelurosaur
GSI K27/530, 532, 592–593, 613 & 615 (caudal vertebrae)
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.4 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
AMNH 1959; GSI K27/528 (L maxilla), 704 & 706 (dorsal vertebrae), 619 (R femur)
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.6 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
GSI K27/528 (L maxilla), 704 & 706 (dorsal vertebrae), 619 (R femur)
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.6 Oppel 1811 turtle