Lametaghat, Narmada Valley (north bank): Maastrichtian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Shukla and Srivastava 2008 1 individual
nest; LU/RS-01/9; VPL/CCE 3–5
    = Crocodylomorpha indet. Hay 1930
Srivastava et al. 2015
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Reptilia - Fusioolithidae
Megaloolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995
Khosla and Sahni 1995 2 specimens
recombined as Fusioolithus baghensis
VPL/KH/271–272
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Madhya Pradesh County:Jabalpur
Coordinates: 23.1° North, 79.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.7° South, 63.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from Facies II in the Lower Limestone
C29r
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,burrows,paleosol/pedogenic,gray,blue sandy,cherty/siliceous lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a 1-1.5 m thick bluish-grey sandy limestone facies (Facies II). Silt-sand grains are interspersed within the fine-grained limestone. In this part, 10e20 cm thick sandy-shale units showing horizontal lamination and small rippled features often separate 40e50 cm thick hard beds of sandy limestone. Fine to coarse green sandstone, quartzite fragments and granules of jasper, vein quartz and chert are haphazardly dispersed and also form few cm thick lenses. Facies shows meter-wide scour and fill structures, extensive soft-sediment deformation and brecciated character. Shrinkage cracks filled with gravels, sparry calcite and cherty material are common. Calcrete lenses and nodules are present at different levels. Facies shows moderate to high degree of mottling. The lizard nest was recovered from the top of this lithofacies (Facies II)."
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: "either subaerially exposed palustrine flats or proximal fan surface" - a marshy lagoonal setting
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lameta Ghat
Database number:68167
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-01-05 10:54:16 Last modified:2022-06-17 10:31:16
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-05 10:54:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

81940. A. Sahni and A. Tripathi. 1990. Age implications of the Jabalpur Lameta Formation and intertrappean biotas. In A. Sahni & A. Jolly (ed.), Cretaceous Event Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Indian Nonmarine Strata. Contributions from the Seminar cum Workshop, IGCP Projects 216 and 245 35-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14221ETE K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/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]
19584ETE A. Khosla and A. Sahni. 1995. Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 40:87-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19788ETE D. M. Mohabey. 2001. Indian dinosaur eggs: a review. Journal of the Geological Society of India 58(6):479-508 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79455 D. M. Mohabey and B. Samant. 2013. Deccan continental flood basalt eruption terminated Indian dinosaurs before the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Geological Society of India Special Publication 1:260-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42517 O. Saha, U. K. Shukla, and R. Rani. 2010. Trace fossils from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation, Jabalpur area, Madhya Pradesh: paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of the Geological Society of India 76:607-620 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29139ETE U. K. Shukla and R. Srivastava. 2008. Lizard eggs from Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Jabalpur, central India, with interpretation of depositional environments of the nest-bearing horizon. Cretaceous Research 29:674-686 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79244 R. Srivastava, R. Patnaik, U. K. Shukla and A. Sahni. 2015. Crocodilian nest in a Late Cretaceous sauropod hatchery from the type Lameta Ghat locality, Jabalpur, India. PLoS One 10(12):e0144369:1-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70944 S. K. Tandon. 2001. Palaeoenvironments of Late Cretaceous sequences of Central India—update and synthesis. Geological Survey of India Special Publication 64:121-146 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35933ETE S. K. Tandon, A. Sood, J. E. Andrews and P. F. Dennis. 1995. Palaeoenvironments of the dinosaur-bearing Lameta Beds (Maastrichtian), Narmada Valley, central India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 117:153-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]