Balasinor Town, Kheda (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.0° N, 73.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 57.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• infratrappean

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; nodular, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• "palustrine"
• "calcretized sandstone (sandly limestone)"; "arenaceous limestone"; "limestone is dark to grey in color and is highly siliceous. In places, it is orbicular in nature and consists of nodules of clay and limonite."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Mohabey in 1981–1984

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 61500: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus phensaniensis" = Fusioolithus mohabeyi1
"Megaloolithus phensaniensis" = Fusioolithus mohabeyi1 Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus problematica2 Mohabey 2005 titanosaurid
"(?)Titanosaurid Type-I"