Tákli Plain, northwest of Nagpur: Late Maastrichtian, India
collected by S. Hislop, R. Hunter 1851

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
7 specimens
No. 6-13
Mani 1947 1 specimen
Presumably one of Curculionidae in Murray 1860 (1 measurement)
1 specimen
No. 5
Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
3 specimens
No. 2-4
Lomatus hislopi n. gen., n. sp. Murray 1860
1 specimen
No. 1
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Maharashtra
Coordinates: 21.2° North, 79.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.1° South, 71.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Takli
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Intertrappean beds within Deccan Traps; the informal "Takli Formation" is Maastrichtian in age based on on palynology, vertebrate, and ostracod fauna. Bed is "only a few inches thick" at Takli (Hislop & Hunter, 1855).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Environment:lacustrine - small Tectonic setting:passive margin
Geology comments: "Part of a lake, extensive enough to be bounded at least on the west and south, and probably on all sides, by the horizon" (Hislop & Hunter, 1855). Likely a shallow lake given thin extent of lacustrine bed.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Hislop, R. Hunter Collection dates:1851
Metadata
Database number:119660
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-10-30 14:29:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-30 14:29:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
49705. A. Murray. 1860. Notes on some fossil insects from Nagpur. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:182-186 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

25294 E. A. Jarzembowski. 1995. Fossil caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Early Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research 16:695-703 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/J. Karr]
51679 M. S. Mani. 1947. On a fossil weevil from Nagpur, India. Indian Journal of Entomology 8:53-57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]