Dholidhanti, Dohad (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.0° N, 74.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 57.9° 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; calcareous sandstone

• "calcretized sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. M. Mohabey and U. B. Mathur. 1989. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs from new localities of Gujarat, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 33:32-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61581: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus megadermus n. sp. Mohabey 1998 titanosaurid
"Type I"; "stray eggs"