Bagh River, Borkui (upper) (Cretaceous to of India)

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (22.4° N, 74.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.0° S, 51.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nimar Sandstone Formation (Bagh Beds Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

• upper bed within sandstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; red, sandy shale and ferruginous, gray sandstone

• environmental interpretation ranges from "shallow water to near shore conditions with shifting sandy substrate and turbulent waters, shallow sub-littoral, intertidal to inner subtidal, shallow shelf deposits, and macrotidal estuarine complex environment comprising tidal channels."
• "red sandy shale beds" amidst the "upper part of grey ferruginous sandstone" (also described as "gritty" here)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Khosla, V. V. Kapur, P. C. Sereno, J. A. Wilson, G. P. Wilson, D. Dutheil, A. Sahni, M. P. Singh, S. Kumar and R. S. Rana. 2003. First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar sandstone (Bagh Beds), district Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 48:115-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38520: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet.
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
oysters
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
incl. femur, VPL/KH/3500
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
cf. Rhizophora sp.
cf. Rhizophora sp. Linnaeus 1753 true mangrove