PBDB Collection

Bara Simla, Jabalpur [Carnosaur Bed]: Maastrichtian, India
collected by C. A. Matley, B. Brown 1917–1922

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890	Huene and Matley 1933	3 specimens
	GSI K27/574, 589, 616
	= Abelisauroidea indet. Bonaparte 1991	Carrano 2025
Reptilia - Abelisauridae

	Allosauridae indet. Marsh 1878	Huene and Matley 1933	187 specimens
	said to belong to 2 species; GSI K27/538, 544 & 548 (maxillae), 710 (L pmx), 577 & 708 (R lacrimals); 575 (R squamosal); 535 & 581 (L jugals), 580 (R PO), 567, 688–689 & 698 (ectopterygoids), 691 (R Q), 576 & 687 (basioccipitals), 529, 538, 550, 573, 582–584, 700 & 709 (dentaries), 527 & 693 (articulars), 573, 583, 585, 620, 701–702 (teeth), 598 (dorsal centrum), 591 (axis), 572 ¶ 590 (cervical vertebrae), 533 & 554 (sacral vertebrae), 530, 532, 536, 593–594, 596, 705 (caudal vertebrae), 545, 566, 672–677, 679–680 (chevrons), 692 (gastralia), 546 & 686 (ischia), 558, 560, 563–564, 569–570, 618, 621, 627 (femora), 568 (L tibia), 540 & 620 (fibulae), 684 (R astragalus), 671 (R MT II), 557, 658 (MT III), 539, 656, 659–661 & 663–664 (MT IV), 651, 652 & 654 (pedal phalanges), 543, 551, 633 & 636 (pedal unguals), 668 (tarsal/carpal); K20/619 (R pmx), 362 (chevron), 396 (calcaneum), 399 (pedal ungual); K19/579, 581 (R tibiae), 336A, B (MT III); ca. 51 add’l. teeth & 37 add’l. pedal phalanges
	= Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985	Carrano and Sampson 2008

	Ornithomimoides mobilis n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	5 specimens
	nomen dubium belonging to Abelisauridae
	GSI K27/586, 597, 600 & K20/610, 614 (dorsal vertebrae)

	Ornithomimoides ? mobilis Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Abelisauridae
	GSI K27/599 (caudal vertebra)

	Indosuchus raptorius n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	3 specimens
	GSI K20/350 & K27/685, 690 (skull pieces)

	aff. Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822	Matley 1921	4 specimens
	theropod with armor, as in Dynamosaurus
	= Lametasaurus indicus n. gen., n. sp. Matley 1924	Huene and Matley 1933
	described as a stegosaur, but really a theropod (armor from a titanosaur)

	Coeluroides largus n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	4 specimens
	nomen dubium belonging to Abelisauridae
	GSI K27/562, 574, 595 (dorsal vertebrae), 695 (vertebra)

	Dryptosauroides grandis n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	11 specimens
	nomen dubium belonging to Abelisauridae
	GSI K20/334, 609 & K27/549, 601–602, 626 (dorsal vertebrae), K27/555 (cervical vertebra), K20/615 & K27/623–625 (anterior dorsal ribs)

	Indosaurus matleyi n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	1 specimen
	GSI K27/565 (braincase)
Reptilia

	Orthogoniosaurus matleyi n. gen., n. sp. Das-Gupta 1930	Das-Gupta 1930	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Ceratosauria
Reptilia - Noasauridae

	Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914	Huene and Matley 1933	49 specimens
	GSI K27/579, 703 (teeth), 581 (sacrum), 542, 561, 605–611 & 712 (caudal vertebrae), 559 (R ilium), 526, 552, 662 & 669 (R tibia), 665 & 697 (MTs), 534, 639–641, 643–644, 646–647, 649–650, 655 & 694 (pedal phalanges), 629–632 (pedal ungual), 657 & 666–667 (MCs), 524, 642, 645 & 648 (manual phalanges); K20/612 (caudal vertebra), K20/337C (MT), 337A, B (pedal phalanges), 625 (pedal ungual), 626B (manual phalanx)
	= Noasauridae indet. Bonaparte and Powell 1980	Carrano and Sampson 2008

	? Coeluroides largus Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	1 specimen
	GSI K27/587 (posterior caudal vertebra)
	= Abelisauroidea indet. Bonaparte 1991	Carrano and Sampson 2008
	= Noasauridae indet. Bonaparte and Powell 1980	Carrano et al. 2011

	Compsosuchus solus n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Noasauridae
	GSI K27/578 (axis)

	Laevisuchus indicus n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	4 specimens
	GSI K20/613–614 & K27/696 (cervical vertebrae), K27/588 (dorsal vertebra)

	Jubbulpuria tenuis n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	2 specimens
	nomen dubium belonging to Noasauridae
	GSI K20/612 & K27/614 (vertebrae)

	? Ornithomimoides barasimlensis n. sp. Huene 1933	Huene and Matley 1933	4 specimens
	nomen dubium belonging to Noasauridae
	GSI K27/531, 541, 604 & 682 (dorsal vertebrae)
Reptilia

	? Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914	Huene and Matley 1933	6 specimens
	GSI K27/530, 532, 592–593, 613 & 615 (caudal vertebrae)

	Lametasaurus sp. Matley 1924	Huene and Matley 1933	1 specimen
	AMNH 1959; GSI K27/528 (L maxilla), 704 & 706 (dorsal vertebrae), 619 (R femur)
	= Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993	D'Emic et al. 2009
Reptilia - Titanosauridae

	Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885	Huene and Matley 1933	5 specimens
	GSI K27/528 (L maxilla), 704 & 706 (dorsal vertebrae), 619 (R femur)
Reptilia

	Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)	Huene and Matley 1933
see common names

Geography

Country:	India	State/province:	Madhya Pradesh	County:	Jabalpur
Coordinates:	23.2° North, 80.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	24.7° South, 63.2° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	410 meters
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
*Period:	Late/Upper Cretaceous	*Epoch:	Senonian
Key time interval:	Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Lameta	Member:	Carnosaur Bed
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: found as a pocket/lens below the Lower/Main Limestone of the Lameta Group and at the top of the Greensand Formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	glauconitic,green sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: greensand with autochthonous glauconite; geology of "carnosaur bed" not described
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	-bonebed
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Spatial orientation:	random
Preservation of anatomical detail:	medium
Articulated whole bodies:	none
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Disassociated minor elements:	none
Fragmentation:	occasional
Encrustation:	none
Temporal resolution:	snapshot
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	salvage,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	AMNH
Collectors:	C. A. Matley, B. Brown	Collection dates:	1917–1922
Collection method comments: initial collection by Matley, later by Brown

Metadata

Also known as:	Jabalpur, Carnosaur Pocket
Database number:	26373
Authorizer:	M. Carrano	Enterer:	M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2002-10-14 21:12:32	Last modified:	2022-05-04 11:03:18
Access level:	the public	Released:	2002-10-14 21:12:32
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

13766.

ETE

C. A. Matley. 1919. On the remains of carnivorous dinosaurs from the Lameta beds at Jubbulpore. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series 15:cxcviii-cxcix [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

53985		Anonymous. 1933. Recent discovery of fossil reptilian remains in the Central Provinces. Current Science 1:337-338 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14199	ETE	M. T. Carrano. 2025. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria. [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
44450		M. T. Carrano, M. A. Loewen, and J. J. W. Sertich. 2011. New materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and implications for the morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 95:1-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
30810	ETE	M. T. Carrano and S. D. Sampson. 2008. The phylogeny of Ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(2):183-236 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13875	ETE	D. K. Chakravarti. 1935. Is Lametasaurus indicus an armored dinosaur?. The American Journal of Science, series 5 30:138-141 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
6973		S. Chatterjee. 1978. Indosuchus and Indosaurus, Cretaceous carnosaurs from India. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):570-580 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33029	ETE	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]
57058		E. H. Colbert. 1984. Mesozoic reptiles, India and Gondwanaland. Indian Journal of Earth Sciences 11(1):25-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17480	ETE	W. P. Coombs. 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29823	ETE	M. D. D'Emic, J. A. Wilson, and S. Chatterjee. 2009. The titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) osteoderm record: review and first definitive specimen from India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):165-177 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10517		H. C. Das-Gupta. 1930. On a new theropod dinosaur (Orthogoniosaurus matleyi, n. gen. et n. sp.) from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series 16(20):367-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7271		F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1):1-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
9909		T. Maryanska. 1977. Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 37:85-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19228	ETE	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]
62844		C. A. Matley. 1921. Further discoveries of the remains of dinosaurs in the Lameta beds of the Jubbulpore district. Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Science Congress cxi [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14539	ETE	C. A. Matley. 1931. Recent discoveries of dinosaurs in India. Geological Magazine 48:274-282 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78717		D. M. Mohabey. 2011. History of Late Cretaceous dinosaur finds in India and current status of their study. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 56(2):127-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46927		D. M. Mohabey, S. Sen, and J. A. Wilson. 2013. India's first dinosaur, rediscovered. Current Science 104(1):34-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13712	ETE	J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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79454		J. A. Wilson, D. M. Mohabey, P. Lakra and A. Bhadran. 2019. Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) vertebrae from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of western and central India. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 33(1):1-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]