Bara Simla, Jabalpur [Greensand]: Maastrichtian, India
collected by W. Sleeman, G. Spilsbury, Medlicott 1828, 1832–1871

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Matley 1921
"trees"
Reptilia
Titanosaurus indicus n. gen., n. sp. Lydekker 1877
Lydekker 1877 2 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Titanosauria
2 vertebrae
cf. Antarctosaurus sp. Huene 1927
Huene and Matley 1933 2 specimens
GSI K22/754 (L femur; orig. cotype of T. indicus), prox. R humerus
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
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lameta Member:Lower Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: femur came from greensand below the Main Limestone; vertebrae from the Sauropod Bed
Main Limestone = Lower Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:none
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:W. Sleeman, G. Spilsbury, Medlicott Collection dates:1828, 1832–1871
Collection method comments: originally discovered by Captain Sleeman in 1828, then studied by Spilsbury (1832), Prinsep, Medlicott, and Lydekker
Metadata
Database number:63895
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-24 14:03:42 Last modified:2022-05-04 11:01:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-24 14:03:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19594.ETE S. Hislop. 1859. On the Tertiary deposits, associated with trap-rock, in the East Indes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:154-182 [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]
56084 S. Hislop. 1861. Remarks on the geology of Nágpur. Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 6:194-204 [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]
18383ETE R. Lydekker. 1877. Notices of new and other Vertebrata from Indian Tertiary and Secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India 10(1):30-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19228ETE 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]
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]
81580 G. V. R. Prasad. 2012. Vertebrate biodiversity of the Deccan volcanic province of India: a review. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(6):597-610 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60340 A. Sahni. 1997. Indian dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 361-368 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]