Where: Andhra Pradesh, India (17.3° N, 78.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 58.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Intertrappean beds in the Deccan Trap basalt flows

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, silty, calcareous sandstone

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 37079: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.03.2004, edited by Matthew Carrano

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