Also known as Intertrappean Beds Kisalpuri
Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (22.9° N, 80.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 64.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• age based on chondrichthyans and ostracods; "intertrappean"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, green siltstone
•Rage et al. 2020: The Kisalpuri intertrappean section is 4.5 m thick and consists of clays, mudstones, and siltstones. The amphibian and squamate fossils described here come from a 70 cm thick siltstone bed.
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve
• "About 50 isolated teeth and postcranial bones of placental mammals" plus chondrichthyans and ostracods and one gondwanathere tooth recovered "by bulk screen-washing of about 3000 kg of sediment"; "4 tons of sediment" according to Prasad et al. 2007 in Science
•material reposited in the Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Jammu University
•The fossil specimens described here are deposited in the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory of the Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India and bear cata- logue numbers with the acronym DUGF. The acronym VPL/JU refers to the vertebrate paleontological collections of Jammu University, India.
Primary reference: A. Khosla, G. V. R. Prasad, O. Verma, A. K. Jain, and A. Sahni. 2004. Discovery of a micromammal-yielding Deccan intertrappean site near Kisalpuri, Dindori District, Madhya Pradesh. Current Science 87(3):380-383 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75493: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.10.2007, edited by Matthew Carrano, Mark Uhen and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda | |
"Paracypretta bhatiai" = Altanicypris bhatiai
"Paracypretta bhatiai" = Altanicypris bhatiai Khosla and Sahni 2000 ostracod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Amphibia | |
Anura indet.6, ? Costata indet.6, Neobatrachia ("Leptodactylid-Hemisotid morphotype") indet.6, Neobatrachia ("Ranoid-Myobatrachoid morphotype") indet.6, Neobatrachia ("? Ranoid Morphotype") indet.6, Neobatrachia ("Morphotype A") indet.6, Neobatrachia ("Morphotype B") indet.6
Anura indet.6 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog DUGF/522 (maxilla); DUGF/515 (presacral vertebra); DUGF/513 (sacral vertebra); DUGF/516, 517, 518 (all urostyles); DUGF/519 (coracoid); DUGF/524, 525 (scapulae); DUGF/485, 486 (humeri); DUGF/521 (vertebra); DUGF/481 (scapula); DUGF/520 (coracoid); DUGF/468 (ilia); DUGF 487-512 (radioulnae); DUGF/556-560 (tibiofibulae);
Neobatrachia ("Leptodactylid-Hemisotid morphotype") indet.6 frog Leptodactylid-Hemisotid morphotype Isolated ilia DUGF/453-459, 461, 462, 469, 470, 478, and perhaps DUGF/463-467 and DUGF/473-477
Neobatrachia ("Ranoid-Myobatrachoid morphotype") indet.6 frog Ranoid-Myobatrachoid morphotype DUGF/450, 452, 460, and perhaps DUGF/451, 471, 472
Neobatrachia ("? Ranoid Morphotype") indet.6 frog ?Ranoid Morphotype Two incomplete ilia (DUGF/479 and 480)
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Mammalia | |
Bharattherium bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.3
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Kharmerungulatum vanvaleni n. gen. n. sp.4
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Reptilia | |
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Squamata indet.6 squamates DUGF/540 (premaxillae); DUGF/544-555 (maxillae); DUGF/541-543 (dentaries);
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"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur | |
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Subtiliolithus kachchhensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 theropod | |
Actinopteri | |
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