Dayapur, Kachchh (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.7° N, 68.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 53.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Takli Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• intertrappean beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Sahni and S. Bajpai. 1988. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events: the fossil vertebrate, palaeomagnetic and radiometric evidence from Peninsualr India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 32(5):382-395 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58098: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 19.01.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
eggshell
 Theropoda -