Also known as Tikisuchus holotype

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.9° N, 81.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 51.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tiki Formation (Gondwana Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• The Tiki Formation is considered a temporal equivalent of the lower Maleri Formation, and both have been correlated on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy with the Scaphonyx-Exaeretodon-Herrerasaurus biozone of the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina and the Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone of the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil (e.g. Novas et al. 2011. Earth Env. Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 101:333-349). The relevant part of the Ischigualasto Formation has been dated as late Carnian in age on radioisotopic data (e.g. Martinez et al. 2011. Science 331: 206-210), and the Tiki Formation is commonly considered equivalent in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• ISI: Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1885. The Reptilia & Amphibia of the Maleria & Denwa Groups. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica, Series IV. Indian Pretertiary Vertebrata 1(5):1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94787: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.03.2010

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