Ada (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Asifabad

Where: Andhra Pradesh, India (19.4° N, 79.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 60.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Intertrappean beds in the Deccan Trap basalt flows

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and lenticular, coarse-grained, pebbly, calcareous sandstone

• The traps overlie red clay beds which are similar to the Kota red clays. three intertrappean beds separated by trap flows could be deciphered...fosiliferous intertrappean beds consists of calcareous, soft, coarse grained sandstone which is locally gritty and pebbly. Thin lenticular beds of marly bands are also present.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. R. Jagannatha Rao and P. Yadagiri. 1981. Cretaceous intertrappean beds from Andhra Pradesh and their stratigraphic significance. Geological Society of India Memoir 3:287-297 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37077: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
fragment of limb bone
Bivalvia
 Unionata -
"Unionoida indet." = Unionida
"Unionoida indet." = Unionida Stoliczka 1871 clam