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

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: Mottled Nodular Marl Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• belongs to the lowest and least nodular part of the Mottled Nodular Beds, about four feet above the Ossiferous Conglomerate

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, red, sandy claystone

• "a deposit of red and green, marly and somewhat sandy clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. A. Matley, D. Bhattacharji in 1917

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical

Primary reference: C. A. Matley. 1921. On the stratigraphy, fossils and geological relationships of the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53(2):142-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26375: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet.1 carnosaur
teeth
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.3, "Antarctosaurus septentrionalis n. sp." = Jainosaurus septentrionalis1, Titanosaurus indicus
Titanosauria indet.3 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
338/GSI/PAL/CR/2017, anterior caudal neural arch
"Antarctosaurus septentrionalis n. sp." = Jainosaurus septentrionalis1 Huene and Matley 1933 sauropod
GSI K20/317 (anterior caudal vertebra), 326 (rib), 490 (R radius), 491 (?R ulna), 492–494 & 496 (chevrons), 495 (rib), 497 (braincase), 647 (sternal plate), squamosal, hyoid, 26 additional rib pieces, L & R scapulae, R humerus
Titanosaurus indicus Lydekker 1877 sauropod
GSI K20/315-316 (caudal vertebrae), 318 (chevron)
 Saurischia - Pakisauridae
Imrankhanhero zilefatmi2 Malkani 2023 sauropod
K20/321 (L tibia), 489 (R fibula)