Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 28.5° S, 65.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• "infratrappean" sediments of the Lameta Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; gray, green, calcareous, cherty/siliceous conglomerate and sandy, calcareous sandstone
•"A conglomeratic formation with a siliceous or calcareous matrix forming the lower part grading successively into gritty, siliceous or calcareous types." (Dwivedi et al., 1985)
•"a gray to greenish ossiferous conglomeratic layer...a 2.5 m to >3 m thick, hard, cherty gray to green oligomictic matrix-supported conglomerate with angular to subangular clasts of quartz, feldspar, chert, granite, and pegmatites (up to 20 cm)." (Wilson et al., 2019)
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by GSI, D. Mohabey in 1982–1984
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• "There are probably additional bones beyond the edge of the current map, which shows only those portions excavated from 1982 through 1984."
Primary reference: A. Sahni. 1984. Cretaceous-Paleocene terrestrial faunas of India: lack of endemism during drifting of the Indian Plate. Science 226(4673):441-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34725: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Rajasaurus narmadensis n. gen. n. sp.4
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Titanosauria indet.3 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod GSI/GC/OGF107, GSI/GC/2905 (= OGF106), vertebrae
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