Kisalpuri (Cretaceous of India)

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

• "Brownish-green siltstone" (Prasad et al. 2007 in Science)

•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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Ilyocyprididae
"Paracypretta bhatiai" = Altanicypris bhatiai
"Paracypretta bhatiai" = Altanicypris bhatiai Khosla and Sahni 2000 ostracod
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis indicus Prasad and Cappetta 1993 eagle ray
tooth
Amphibia
 Salientia -
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);
? Costata indet.6 frog
DUGF/484 ilia;
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)
Neobatrachia ("Morphotype A") indet.6 frog
One incomplete left ilium DUGF/482
Neobatrachia ("Morphotype B") indet.6 frog
One incomplete left ilium DUGF/483
 Salientia - Leptodactylidae
? Leptodactylidae indet. Stirton 1953 frog
ilium
Mammalia
 Allotheria - Sudamericidae
Bharattherium bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.3
Bharattherium bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.3 Prasad et al. 2007 mammal
 Theriamorpha - Otlestidae
? Otlestidae indet. Nessov 1985 eutherian
VPL/JU/IM/31
 Theriamorpha -
Kharmerungulatum vanvaleni n. gen. n. sp.4 Prasad et al. 2007 placental
 Theriamorpha - Adapisoriculidae
Deccanolestes sp.4 Prasad and Sahni 1988 eutherian
Deccanolestes narmadensis n. sp.5 Prasad et al. 2010 eutherian
Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Carteremys sp.1 Williams 1953 sideneck turtle
 Squamata -
Squamata indet.6 squamates
DUGF/540 (premaxillae); DUGF/544-555 (maxillae); DUGF/541-543 (dentaries);
 Serpentes -
 Squamata -
Lacertilia indet. lizard
premaxilla
 Loricata -
Neosuchia indet. Clark 1988 crocodilian
teeth
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Dyrosauridae indet.2 crocodilian
VPL/JU/IR/400-403
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
eggshell fragments
 Theropoda - Laevisoolithidae
Subtiliolithus kachchhensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 theropod
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae indet. Agassiz 1833
branchial tooth
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus cf. indicus gar
tooth, scale
 Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Osteoglossidae indet. Bonaparte 1832 arowana
squamule
Phareodus sp.1 Leidy 1873 arowana
 Teleostei -
Siluriformes indet. catfish
pectoral spine