Sivni Tola, Narmada Valley (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Maharashtra, India (23.1° N, 79.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 63.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mottled Nodular Marl Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• C29r

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, concretionary sandstone

• formed in "a soil-vadose zone...within a few meters of the sediment surface"
• fine sand, with vertical reticulate fabric and some nodular fabric, as well as type 2 rhizocretions and fibrous calcite near top of bed

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. K. Tandon, J. E. Andrews, A. Sood and S. Mittal. 1998. Skrinkage and sediment supply control on multiple calcrete profile development: a case study from the Maastrichtian of Central India. Sedimentary Geology 119:25-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59888: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2006

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Dinosauria indet.
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