List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
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Semionotiformes indet.
Arambourg and Bertin 1958
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Anura
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Pelobatidae indet.
Lataste 1879
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Yadagiri 1986 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
GSI.TI.19, 20 | ||||||||||
= Anura indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1813
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | |||||||||
Sirenidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Yadagiri 1986 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
GSI.TI.10, 16, 17 | ||||||||||
= Anura indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1813
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Symmetrodonta
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Trishulotherium kotaensis n. gen., n. sp.
Yadagiri 1984
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Yadagiri 1984 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
GSI type No. SR/PAL/10 (holotype), left lower molar | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Symmetrodonta
- Amphidontidae
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Nakunodon paikasiensis n. gen., n. sp.
Yadagiri 1985
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Yadagiri 1985 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
holotype, right upper molar only; G.S.I. Type No. SR/PAL/12 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Eobaataridae
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Indobaatar zofiae n. gen., n. sp.
Parmar et al. 2013
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Parmar et al. 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KM/20, an isolated left upper premolar (P4) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Triconodonta
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Triconodonta indet.
Osborn 1888
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Prasad and Manhas 2002 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KM/15, fragmentary lower left molar | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Eutriconodonta
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Dyskritodon indicus n. sp.
Prasad and Manhas 2002
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Prasad and Manhas 2002 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KM/13, holotype lower left molar | ||||||||||
Morganucodonta
- Morganucodontidae
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Kotatherium yadagirii n. sp.
Prasad and Manhas 1997
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Prasad and Manhas 1997 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Paikasigudodon yadagirii | ||||||||||
VPL/JU/KM/10 holotype right upper molar | ||||||||||
Indotherium pranhitai n. gen., n. sp.
Yadagiri 1984
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Yadagiri 1984 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
GSI type No. SR/PAL/11 (holotype), left upper molar. VPL/JU/KM/11, right upper molar | ||||||||||
Docodonta
- Docodontidae
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Gondtherium dattai n. gen., n. sp.
Prasad and Manhas 2007
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KM 12 plus right lower molar (now lost) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Evans et al. 2002 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KR 61, 62 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Paikasisaurus indicus n. gen., n. sp.
Yadagiri 1986
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Yadagiri 1986 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Squamata | ||||||||||
GSI.TI.14, 15 | ||||||||||
Bharatagama rebbanensis n. gen., n. sp.
Evans et al. 2002
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Evans et al. 2002 | 86 specimens | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KR 66 (holotype), dentary, plus referred specimens | ||||||||||
Lepidosauromorpha indet.
(Benton 1983)
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Evans et al. 2001 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
VPLJJU/KR57-60 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Sphenodontidae
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Sphenodontidae indet.
Cope 1871
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Yadagiri 1986 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
GSI.TI.8-12, 17 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Godavarisaurus lateefi n. gen., n. sp.
Evans et al. 2001
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Evans et al. 2001 | 16 specimens | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KR47 (holotype), VPL/JU/KR37-46, 48-52, 65 | ||||||||||
Rebbanasaurus jaini n. gen., n. sp.
Evans et al. 2001
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Evans et al. 2001 | 50 specimens | ||||||||
VPL/JU/KR 12 (holotype), plus around 50 referred specimens | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
DUGF/J/40-41, tooth fragments | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae informal indet. 1
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
morphotype 1; DUGF/J19-25, teeth | ||||||||||
Dromaeosauridae informal indet. 2
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
morphotype 2; DUGF/J/27-30, 32-34, teeth | ||||||||||
Dromaeosauridae informal indet. 3
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
morphotype 3; DUGF/J26, tooth | ||||||||||
Dromaeosauridae informal indet. 4
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
morphotype 4; DUGF/J36, tooth | ||||||||||
Dromaeosauridae informal indet. 5
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
morphotype 5; DUGF/J43-48, teeth | ||||||||||
Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 26 specimens | ||||||||
"Richardoestesia-like" but assigned to Dromaeosauridae; DUGF/J39, 49–69, 70-73, teeth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ornithischia indet.
Seeley 1888
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
DUGF/J1-4, 12, teeth | ||||||||||
= Ornithischia informal indet. 1
Seeley 1888
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | |||||||||
Ornithischia informal indet. 2
(Seeley 1888)
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
morphotype 2; DUGF/J17, tooth | ||||||||||
Ornithischia informal indet. 3
(Seeley 1888)
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
morphotype 3; DUGF/J5-11, teeth | ||||||||||
Ornithischia informal indet. 4
(Seeley 1888)
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
morphotype 4; DUGF/J16, tooth | ||||||||||
Ornithischia informal indet. 5
(Seeley 1888)
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Prasad and Parmar 2020 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
morphotype 5; DUGF/J13-15, teeth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
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? Polyacrodus sp.
Jaekel 1889
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Prasad and Manhas 2007 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Lonchidiidae
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Lonchidion indicus
Yadagiri 1986
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Yadagiri 1986 | 1 element | ||||||||
GSI.TI.2, tooth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | India | State/province: | Andhra Pradesh | County: | Adilabad |
Coordinates: | 19.3° North, 79.5° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 31.0° South, 32.2° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Gondwana | Formation: | Kota | Member: | Upper |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "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) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | nodular,gray,green siltstone |
Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a 27 cm thick greenish-grey nodular siltstone" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,sieve,field collection |
Rock censused: | 7000 kg |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1997–2013 |
Collection method comments: Deposited in the Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, G.S.I. Hyderabad, India and VPL/JU Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Jammu University |
Metadata
Also known as: | Chitarampalli; 6 km east of Asafabad Railway Station, Paikasiudem | ||
Database number: | 39673 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler, R. Benson | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler, R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-06-02 12:07:40 | Last modified: | 2022-07-26 13:48:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-02 12:07:40 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
25318. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
32704 | ETE | S. Bandyopadhyay, D. D. Gillette, S. Ray and D. P. Sengupta. 2010. Osteology of Barapasaurus tagorei (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Jurassic of India. Palaeontology 53(3):533-569 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler] |
43787 | S. E. Evans, G. V. R. Prasad, and B. K. Manhas. 2001. Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133:309-334 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
25719 | ETE | S. E. Evans, G. V. R. Prasad, and B. K. Manhas. 2002. Fossil lizards from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(2):299-312 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler] |
46673 | V. Parmar, G. V. R. Prasad, and D. Kumar. 2013. The first multituberculate mammal from India. Naturwissenschaften [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
42359 | G. V. R. Prasad and B. K. Manhas. 1997. A new symmetrodont mammal from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India. Geobios 30(4):563-572 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano] | |
44650 | G. V. R. Prasad and B. K. Manhas. 2001. First docodont mammals of Laurasian affinity from India. Current Science 81(9):1235-1238 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant] | |
42360 | G. V. R. Prasad and B. K. Manhas. 2002. Triconodont mammals from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Geodiversitas 24(2):445-464 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
25145 | ETE | G. V. R. Prasad and B. K. Manhas. 2007. A new docodont mammal from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Palaeontologia Electronica 10(2):7A-1-7A-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
82274 | G. V. R. Prasad and V. Parmar. 2020. First ornithischian and theropod dinosaur teeth from the Middle Jurassic Kota Formation of India: paleobiogeographic relationships. In G. V. R. Prasad & R. Patnaik (ed.), Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up—A Tribute to Ashok Sahni 1-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
43788 | P. Yadagiri. 1984. New smmetrodonts from Kota Formation (Early Jurassic), India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 25(8):514-521 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
42362 | P. Yadagiri. 1985. An amphidontid symmetrodont from the Early Jurassic Kota Formation, India. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 85:411-417 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
10743 | ETE | P. M. Yadagiri. 1986. Lower Jurassic lower vertebrates from Kota Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 31:89-962 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |