Jetholi, Kheda (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Talao

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 57.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "uppermost limestone unit" - infratrappean

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; cherty/siliceous limestone

• "calcretized sandstone (sandy limestone)"; "egg clutches occur within the upper part of the siliceous limestone which is about 4 m thick"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Srivastava, D. M. Mohabey, A. Sahni and S. C. Pant. 1986. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg clutches from Kheda District (Gujarat, India). Their distribution, shell ultrastructure and palaeoecology. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 193(5–6):219-233 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61608: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Deltapodus sp.1 Whyte and Romano 1995 ornithischian
footprint
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus balasinorensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis2
"Megaloolithus balasinorensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis2 Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
5 clutches with 25 eggs, some "stray eggs"