Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 57.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Specimens derive from a single 50 m^2 bonebed quarry in the Lameta Formation "mudstone unit"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, coarse, gray, white, cherty/siliceous sandstone and lenticular, conglomeratic sandstone
•"a white to gray, medium- to very coarse-grained sandstone, occasionally cherty and with small pockets of conglomeratic sandstones" (Wilson et al., 2019)
Size class: macrofossils
• "Premaxilla, cervical, dorsal, sacral, and caudal vertebrae," incomplete pectoral and pelvic girdles, and "several hindlimb bones"
•Humerus ISIR 657 described in paper
Collected by S. Chatterjee & D. Rudra in 1995
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• Geology Museum of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, collection
Primary reference: S. Chatterjee and D. K. Rudra. 1996. KT events in India: impact, rifting, volcanism and dinosaur extinction. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):489-532 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 95807: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.04.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rahiolisaurus gujaratensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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