Khandajhari, Nand region (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Maharashtra, India (20.7° N, 79.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 61.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; paleosol/pedogenic, green, red, white claystone and red claystone

• "a very persistent pink, red, green and white mottled horizon (< 1 m thick) is noticed in the red overbank clays. It shows typical pedogenic features such as mottling, stippling, kankars, and pedotubules." Fossils in a lag above this paleosol.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. M. Mohabey. 1996. Depositional environment of Lameta Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Nand-Dongargaon inland basin, Maharashtra: the fossil and lithological evidences. In A. Sahni (ed.), Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments (L. Rama Rao Volume). Geological Society of India Memoir 37:363-386 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68619: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
"skeletal remains of titanosaurs associated with coprolites"
 Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelomedusidae indet.
Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa sp.
Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801 snail
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp.
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel