Chui Hill, Jabalpur [Lower Limestone] (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.5° N, 81.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° S, 64.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• C29r

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; yellow, sandy limestone

• "either subaerially exposed palustrine flats or proximal fan surface"
• "sandy carbonate (= limestone)"; "buff, dense, microcrystalline palustrine limestone (LF1)"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. K. Tandon

Primary reference: A. Sahni and A. Tripathi. 1990. Age implications of the Jabalpur Lameta Formation and intertrappean biotas. In A. Sahni & A. Jolly (ed.), Cretaceous Event Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Indian Nonmarine Strata. Contributions from the Seminar cum Workshop, IGCP Projects 216 and 245 35-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61494: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"freshwater gastropods"
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus cylindricus n. sp. Khosla and Sahni 1995 titanosaurid