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
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Matley 1921 | |||||||||
"trees" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Titanosaurus indicus n. gen., n. sp.
Lydekker 1877
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Lydekker 1877 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Titanosauria | ||||||||||
2 vertebrae | ||||||||||
cf. Antarctosaurus sp.
Huene 1927
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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] | |
18383 | ETE | 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] |
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] |
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] |