Khempur, Kheda (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 57.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, brown, gray, sandy limestone and calcareous sandstone

• "arenaceous limestones"; "the eggs occur within the grey and brown streaky limestone which is medium grained and cherry at the top. The thickness of the limestone is fairly uniform and is about 4 m. The limestone grades basally into a calcareous sandstone and a conglomerate which is unfossiliferous.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Mohabey in 1982

Primary reference: S. L. Jain and A. Sahni. 1985. Dinosaurian egg shell fragments from the Lameta Formation at Pisdura, Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. Geoscience Journal 6(2):211-220 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61497: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus khempurensis n. sp.2, Megaloolithus cylindricus1
Megaloolithus khempurensis n. sp.2 Mohabey 1998 titanosaurid
Kheda type B
Megaloolithus cylindricus1 Khosla and Sahni 1995 titanosaurid
VPL/KH 151
1Khosla and Sahni 1995; 2Mohabey 1998