Lametaghat, Narmada Valley (north bank): Maastrichtian, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Shukla and Srivastava 2008 | 1 individual | ||||||||
nest; LU/RS-01/9; VPL/CCE 3–5 | ||||||||||
= Crocodylomorpha indet.
Hay 1930
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Srivastava et al. 2015 | |||||||||
Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Fusioolithidae
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Megaloolithus baghensis
Khosla and Sahni 1995
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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:
14221 | ETE | 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] | |
19584 | ETE | 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] |
19788 | ETE | 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] | |
29139 | ETE | 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] | |
35933 | ETE | 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] |