Also known as Chitarampalli; 6 km east of Asafabad Railway Station, Paikasiudem
Where: Andhra Pradesh, India (19.3° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 32.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Kota Formation), Toarcian to Toarcian (182.7 - 170.3 Ma)
• "On the basis of fishes, the Kota Formation has long been considered to be of Liassic age (King 1881; Robinson 1970). However, several workers noticed the similarity of Kota fishes with the European Toarcian fishes (Schaeffer and Patterson 1984). Patterson and Owen (1991) suggested that the major marine transgression during the Toarcian might have been instrumental for the invasion of the European Liassic fishes in the circumtethyean continents including parts of Indian subcontinent. Recovery of Darwinula, an early Middle Jurassic ostracod, led Govindan (1975) to suggest a Middle Jurassic age for the Kota Formation. Analysing the faunas of the underlying Dharmaram Formation and of the lower and upper units of the Kota Formation and comparing them with faunas from coeval horizons, Bandyopadhyay and Roychowdhury (1996) and Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta (2006) suggested that the Lower Kota Formation has an age ranging from Sinemurian to Pliensbachian, while the age of the upper Kota is Toarcian and may even be extended to Middle Jurassic (?Aalenian)." (Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; nodular, gray, green siltstone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1997–2013
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,
• Deposited in the Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, G.S.I. Hyderabad, India and VPL/JU Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Jammu University
Primary reference: T. S. Kutty. 1969. Some contributions to the stratigraphy of the Upper Gondwana formations of the Pranhita-Godavari Valley, central India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 10:33-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39673: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.06.2004, edited by Roger Benson and Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Semionotiformes indet.6 Arambourg and Bertin 1958 | |
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Amphibia | |
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Reptilia | |
Bharatagama rebbanensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Evans et al. 2002 squamates VPL/JU/KR 66 (holotype), dentary, plus referred specimens
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Dromaeosauridae "indet. 1"7, Dromaeosauridae "indet. 2"7, Dromaeosauridae "indet. 3"7, Dromaeosauridae "indet. 4"7, Dromaeosauridae "indet. 5"7, Dromaeosauridae indet.7
Dromaeosauridae "indet. 2"7 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran morphotype 2; DUGF/J/27-30, 32-34, teeth
Dromaeosauridae indet.7 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran "Richardoestesia-like" but assigned to Dromaeosauridae; DUGF/J39, 49–69, 70-73, teeth
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Ornithischia "indet. 2"7, Ornithischia "indet. 3"7, Ornithischia "indet. 4"7, Ornithischia "indet. 5"7, Ornithischia "indet. 1"7
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Lepidosauromorpha indet.1, Godavarisaurus lateefi n. gen. n. sp.1, Rebbanasaurus jaini n. gen. n. sp.1
Godavarisaurus lateefi n. gen. n. sp.1 Evans et al. 2001 lepidosaur VPL/JU/KR47 (holotype), VPL/JU/KR37-46, 48-52, 65
Rebbanasaurus jaini n. gen. n. sp.1 Evans et al. 2001 lepidosaur VPL/JU/KR 12 (holotype), plus around 50 referred specimens
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Mammalia | |
Dyskritodon indicus n. sp.5
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Indobaatar zofiae n. gen. n. sp.3
Indobaatar zofiae n. gen. n. sp.3 Parmar et al. 2013 multituberculate VPL/JU/KM/20, an isolated left upper premolar (P4)
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Trishulotherium kotaensis n. gen. n. sp.8
Trishulotherium kotaensis n. gen. n. sp.8 Yadagiri 1984 symmetrodont GSI type No. SR/PAL/10 (holotype), left lower molar
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Nakunodon paikasiensis n. gen. n. sp.9
Nakunodon paikasiensis n. gen. n. sp.9 Yadagiri 1985 symmetrodont holotype, right upper molar only; G.S.I. Type No. SR/PAL/12
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Osteichthyes | |
"Kotatherium yadagirii n. sp." = Paikasigudodon yadagirii4 Prasad and Manhas 1997 mammaliaform VPL/JU/KM/10 holotype right upper molar
Indotherium pranhitai n. gen. n. sp.8 Yadagiri 1984 mammaliaform GSI type No. SR/PAL/11 (holotype), left upper molar. VPL/JU/KM/11, right upper molar
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Gondtherium dattai n. gen. n. sp.6
Gondtherium dattai n. gen. n. sp.6 Prasad and Manhas 2007 dodocont VPL/JU/KM 12 plus right lower molar (now lost)
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Chondrichthyes | |
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