Takli 1: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, India
collected 1981–1984
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Osteoglossum deccanensis
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Charophyta indet.
Migula 1890
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Sahni et al. 1987 | |||||||||
"charophytes" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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Pycnodus bicresta
Kumar and Loyal 1987
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
Pycnodus sp.
Agassiz 1833
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
= Pycnodus lametae
Woodward 1908
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Belonostomus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Ichthyotringidae
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Apateodus striatus
Woodward 1901
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Enchodus sp.
Agassiz 1835
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Enchodus ferox
Leidy 1855
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Tetraodontiformes
- Ostraciidae
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Ostracion sp.
Rafinesque 1815
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Tetraodontiformes
- Eotrigonodontidae
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Stephanodus lybicus
(Zittel 1888)
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Clupeiformes
- Clupeoidei
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Clupeidae indet.
Cuvier 1817
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Acanthopteri
- Sphyraenidae
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Sphyraena sp.
Artedi 1793
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
= Lepisosteus indicus
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Palaeolabridae
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Palaeolabrus dormaalensis
Casier 1967
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Anura
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Pelobatidae indet.
Lataste 1879
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
= Anura indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1813
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Agnolin 2012 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Pelobatidae
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Pelobatidae indet.
Lataste 1879
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Rage et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Gekkonidae
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Gekkonidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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Iguanidae indet.
Oppel 1811
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Pristiguana sp.
Estes and Price 1973
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Boidae
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Serpentes indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Sahni et al. 1987 | |||||||||
"snakes" | ||||||||||
= Boidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Boidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Rage et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Xenosauridae
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Exostinus estesi
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Exostinus estesai
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Rage et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Litakis sp.
Estes 1964
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Anguidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Sahni et al. 1987 | |||||||||
"lizards" | ||||||||||
= Scincomorpha indet.
Camp 1923
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Scincomorpha indet.
Camp 1923
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Rage et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Globauridae
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? Contogenys sp.
Estes 1969
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Sahni et al. 1987 | |||||||||
"turtles" | ||||||||||
= Pelomedusidae indet.
Cope 1868
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Archosauria indet.
(Cope 1869)
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Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
TAK 1-4, 1-5, teeth ("Saurischia indet. or Crocodilia") | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodyliformes
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Sahni et al. 1987 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
"crocodiles" | ||||||||||
= Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
ITV/N/Cr-400 to 408 | ||||||||||
= Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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Rio and Mannion 2021 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Coelurosauridae indet.
Cope 1882
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Rana 1990 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
TAK 1-6, 1-7, teeth | ||||||||||
= ? Coelurosauria indet.
Huene 1914
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Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Fusioolithidae
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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50 specimens | |||||||||
eggshell fragments, teeth | ||||||||||
= Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
= ? Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Sahni et al. 1994 | |||||||||
"(?)Titanosaurid Type III" | ||||||||||
= Megaloolithus baghensis
Khosla and Sahni 1995
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Fernández and Khosla 2015 | |||||||||
recombined as Fusioolithus baghensis | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
TAK 1-3, tooth | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Symmetrodonta
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? Symmetrodonta indet.
Simpson 1925
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
= Symmetrodonta indet.
Simpson 1925
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Rana 1990 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Dasyatis sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Igdabatis sigmodon
Cappetta 1972
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Prasad 1989 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
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Pelecypoda indet.
Goldfuss 1820
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Sahni et al. 1987 | |||||||||
synonym of Bivalvia | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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Paludina sp.
Férussac 1812
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Valvatidae
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Valvata sp.
Müller 1774
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Physidae
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Physa sp.
Draparnaud 1801
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Jain 1989 | |||||||||
= Physa prinsepii
Sowerby 1840
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Kapur and Khosla 2019 | |||||||||
Ostracoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Sahni et al. 1987 | |||||||||
"ostracodes" | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Limnaea sp.
Lamarck 1799
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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] |