Chota Simla Hill (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Chhota Simla

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.2° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 63.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "in the greensand, at about two feet below the limestone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, pebbly, green, cherty/siliceous sandstone

• in a "thin pebbly seam" with a siliceous matrix

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Matley in 1917, 1933, 2008; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: C. A. Matley. 1921. On the stratigraphy, fossils and geological relationships of the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53(2):142-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67439: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosaurus indicus Lydekker 1877 sauropod
BMNH R.5903, 5931–35
 Theropoda -