Jabalpur (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Jubbulpore, Jubbulpoor

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.2° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 63.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Spilsbury's Bed"; Main Limestone = Lower Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Oldham in the 1860s

Primary reference: H. Falconer. 1868. Memorandum of two remarkable vertebrae, sent by Dr. Oldham from Jubbulpoor—Spilsbury's bed. C. Murchison (ed.), Palaeontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer. I. Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Robert Hardwicke, London 1:418-419 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58703: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.02.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet. crocodilian
caudal vertebrae