PBDB Collection

Takli 1: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, India
collected 1981–1984

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Osteoglossum deccanensis	Rana 1990

	Charophyta indet. Migula 1890	Sahni et al. 1987
	"charophytes"
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

	Pycnodus bicresta Kumar and Loyal 1987	Prasad 1989

	Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833	Jain 1989
	= Pycnodus lametae Woodward 1908	Rana 1990
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae

	Belonostomus sp. Agassiz 1834	Jain 1989
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Ichthyotringidae

	Apateodus striatus Woodward 1901	Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae

	Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835	Jain 1989

	Enchodus ferox Leidy 1855	Rana 1990
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Ostraciidae

	Ostracion sp. Rafinesque 1815	Rana 1990
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae

	Stephanodus lybicus (Zittel 1888)	Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei

	Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817	Rana 1990
Actinopteri - Acanthopteri - Sphyraenidae

	Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793	Rana 1990
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843	Jain 1989
	= Lepisosteus indicus	Rana 1990
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

	Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832	Jain 1989
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Palaeolabridae

	Palaeolabrus dormaalensis Casier 1967	Prasad 1989
Amphibia - Anura

	Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879	Jain 1989
	= Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813	Agnolin 2012
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae

	Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879	Rage et al. 2020
Reptilia - Gekkonidae

	Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825	Kapur and Khosla 2019
Reptilia - Iguanidae

	Iguanidae indet. Oppel 1811	Kapur and Khosla 2019

	Pristiguana sp. Estes and Price 1973	Kapur and Khosla 2019
Reptilia - Boidae

	Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758	Sahni et al. 1987
	"snakes"
	= Boidae indet. Gray 1825	Jain 1989

	Boidae indet. Gray 1825	Rage et al. 2020
Reptilia - Xenosauridae

	Exostinus estesi	Kapur and Khosla 2019

	Exostinus estesai	Rage et al. 2020
Reptilia

	Litakis sp. Estes 1964	Kapur and Khosla 2019
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Anguidae indet. Gray 1825	Rana 1990
Reptilia

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842	Sahni et al. 1987
	"lizards"
	= Scincomorpha indet. Camp 1923	Jain 1989

	Scincomorpha indet. Camp 1923	Rage et al. 2020
Reptilia - Globauridae

	? Contogenys sp. Estes 1969	Kapur and Khosla 2019
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae

	Testudines indet. Batsch 1788	Sahni et al. 1987
	"turtles"
	= Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868	Rana 1990
Reptilia

	Archosauria indet. (Cope 1869)	Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988	2 specimens
	TAK 1-4, 1-5, teeth ("Saurischia indet. or Crocodilia")
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)	Sahni et al. 1987	8 specimens
	"crocodiles"
	= Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768	Jain 1989
	ITV/N/Cr-400 to 408
	= Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930	Rio and Mannion 2021
Reptilia

	Coelurosauridae indet. Cope 1882	Rana 1990	2 specimens
	TAK 1-6, 1-7, teeth
	= ? Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914	Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988
Reptilia - Fusioolithidae

	Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842		50 specimens
	eggshell fragments, teeth
	= Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878	Prasad 1989
	= ? Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885	Sahni et al. 1994
	"(?)Titanosaurid Type III"
	= Megaloolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995	Fernández and Khosla 2015
	recombined as Fusioolithus baghensis
Reptilia

	? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878	Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988	1 specimen
	TAK 1-3, tooth
Mammalia - Symmetrodonta

	? Symmetrodonta indet. Simpson 1925	Prasad 1989
	= Symmetrodonta indet. Simpson 1925	Rana 1990
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

	Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810	Jain 1989
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

	Igdabatis sigmodon Cappetta 1972	Prasad 1989
Bivalvia

	Pelecypoda indet. Goldfuss 1820	Sahni et al. 1987
	synonym of Bivalvia
Gastropoda - Viviparidae

	Paludina sp. Férussac 1812	Jain 1989
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Valvatidae

	Valvata sp. Müller 1774	Jain 1989
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Physidae

	Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801	Jain 1989
	= Physa prinsepii Sowerby 1840	Kapur and Khosla 2019
Ostracoda

	Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802	Sahni et al. 1987
	"ostracodes"
unclassified

	Limnaea sp. Lamarck 1799	Jain 1989
see common names

Geography

Country:	India	State/province:	Maharashtra
Coordinates:	21.2° North, 79.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	25.0° South, 62.0° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	303 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Takli
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Deccan Intertrappean beds

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	fine,shelly/skeletal,green claystone
Secondary lithology:	coarse,shelly/skeletal sandy marl
Includes fossils?	Y
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "Compact, fine-grained, green fossiliferous clay bed yielding abundant microvertebrates and other microfossils. The gree clay bed is in turn overlain by compact, coarse grained, richly fossiliferous sandy hard marl"
Environment:	fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: lacustrine or lagoonal conditions with minor fluvial inputs

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Fragmentation:	occasional
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:	bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:	1981–1984

Metadata

Also known as:	Takli, Intertrappean Beds Nagpur
Database number:	58102
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	K. Maguire, M. Carrano, P. Mannion, G. Varnham
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2006-01-19 12:14:40	Last modified:	2022-05-17 15:03:47
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-01-19 12:14:40
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]
41617		M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76263		M. S. Fernández and A. Khosla. 2015. Parataxonomic review of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells belonging to the oofamily Megaloolithidae from India and Argentina. Historical Biology 27(2):158-180 [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]
19590	ETE	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]
81638		A. Khosla and S. Bajpai. 2021. Dinosaur fossil records from India and their palaeobiogeographic implications: an overview. Journal of Palaeosciences 70:193-212 [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]
81043		J. -C. Rage, G. V. R. Prasad, O. Verma, A. Khosla, and V. Parmar. 2020. Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate. In G. V. R. Prasad, R. Patnaik (eds.), Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up—A Tribute to Ashok Sahni 99-121 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
49061		R. S. Rana. 1990. Palaeontology and palaeoecology of the Intertrappean (Cretaceous-Tertiary transition) beds of the peninsular India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 35:105-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
49398		R. S. Rana and K. K. Sati. 2000. Late Cretaceous–Palaeocene crocodilians from the Deccan Trap-associated sedimentary sequences of peninsular India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 45:123-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78086		J. P. Rio and P. D. Mannion. 2021. Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem. PeerJ 9:e12094:1-156 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
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]
33323	ETE	A. Sahni. 1992. Faunal assemblage, correlation and palaeoecology of Late Cretaceous nonmarine sequences of peninsular India. In N. J. Mateer, P.-j. Chen (eds.), Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology. China Ocean Press, Beijing 94-109 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15615	ETE	A. Sahni and S. Bajpai. 1988. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events: the fossil vertebrate, palaeomagnetic and radiometric evidence from Peninsualr India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 32(5):382-395 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
17380	ETE	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]
18863	ETE	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]
81634		M. Vianey-Liaud, S. L. Jain, and A. Sahni. 1988. Dinosaur eggshells (Saurischia) from the Late Cretaceous intertrappean and Lameta Formations (Deccan, India). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):408-424 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]