Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 57.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kallamedu Formation (Ariyalur Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; red, sandy claystone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by G. V. R. Prasad, A. Goswami & Dept. of Geology, National College, Tiruchirapalli in 2007, 2009–2010
Collection methods: surface (in situ), sieve,
• DUGF, Delhi University, Geology Department, Fossil Catalogue, Delhi, India
•Surface prospecting was undertaken in a large exposure of the Kallamedu Formation (Fig. 1) during expeditions in 2007, 2009 and 2010, which revealed a large concentration of highly fragmentary large bones that likely represent dinosaur taxa and have been previously identified as titanosaur sauropods. In addition, microsites with concentrations of ganoid fish scales, turtle carapace fragments, and abelisaurid theropod and crocodilian teeth were identified during surface prospecting.
Primary reference: G. V. R. Prasad, O. Verma, J. J. Flynn and A. Goswami. 2013. A new Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the Cauvery Basin, South India: implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6):1260-1268 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153666: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 06.01.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle Several fragmentary pieces of carapace and one vertebral element
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