Asifabad B (Kotari): Maastrichtian, India
collected 1982-1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Anura
Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879
Sahni 1984
    = Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813
Agnolin 2012
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
eggshell fragments
    = ? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Sahni et al. 1994
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae
Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
cf. Belonostomus sp. Agassiz 1834
Sahni 1984
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Sahni 1984
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1833)
Sahni 1984
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Sahni 1984
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
unclassified
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890
Foraminifera indet. Eichwald 1830
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Andhra Pradesh
Coordinates: 19.4° North, 79.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.8° South, 60.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:419 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Coeval to Takli Formation of Nagpur; intertrappean
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology:very coarse,white calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "calcareous, gritty, white sandstone...measures upto 5m vertically and is unfossiliferous whereas the one overlying the white sandstone is soft, finegrained, pale yellow sandstone...1.5 m thick and yields thin egg shell fragments along with marine microvertebrates"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: 'lacustrine or laggonal conditions with minor fluvial inputs'; 'brackish water as well as freshwater conditions'
Intertrappean beds
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils,some genera,species names
Collection methods:sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1982-1984
Metadata
Database number:58101
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Maguire, P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-01-19 11:51:50 Last modified:2021-10-20 15:12:08
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-19 11:51:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15616.ETE A. Sahni, R. S. Rana, and G. V. R. Prasad. 1984. SEM studies of thin egg shell fragments from the intertrappeans (Cretaceous-Tertiary transition) of Nagpur and Asifabad, Peninsular India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 29:26-33 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

73340 F. Agnolin. 2012. A new Calyptocephalellidae (Anura, Neobatrachia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, with comments on its systematic position. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 48(2):129-178 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
14221ETE K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55935 S. L. Jain. 1986. Recent dinosaur discoveries in India, including egg shells, nests and coprolites. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
47228 S. L. Jain. 1989. Recent dinosaur discoveries in India, including eggshells, nests and coprolites. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 99-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19590ETE S. L. Jain and A. Sahni. 1985. Dinosaurian egg shell fragments from the Lameta Formation at Pisdura, Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. Geoscience Journal 6(2):211-220 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78375 V. V. Kapur and A. Khosla. 2019. Faunal elements from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary sequences of India: a reappraisal of biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic, and palaeobiogeographic aspects. Geological Journal 54(5):2797-2828 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78377 G. V. R. Prasad. 1989. Vertebrate fauna from the infra- and inter-trappean beds of Andhra Pradesh: age implications. Journal of the Geological Society of India 34:161-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62680 A. Sahni. 1984. Cretaceous-Paleocene terrestrial faunas of India: lack of endemism during drifting of the Indian Plate. Science 226(4673):441-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17380ETE A. Sahni, R. S. Rana, and G. V. R. Prasad. 1987. New evidence for paleobiogeographic intercontinental Gondwana relationships based on latest Cretaceous-earliest Paleocene coastal faunas from peninsular India. In G. D. McKenzie (ed.), Gondwana 6: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology. Geophysical Monograph 41:207-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18863ETE A. Sahni, S. K. Tandon, A. Jolly, S. Bajpai, A. Sood and S. Srinivasan. 1994. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs and nesting sites from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary province of peninsular India. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch & J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 204-226 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59214 S. Srivastava, D. M. Mohabey, A. Sahni and S. C. Pant. 1986. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg clutches from Kheda District (Gujarat, India). Their distribution, shell ultrastructure and palaeoecology. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 193(5–6):219-233 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]