Rahioli Village: Maastrichtian, India
collected by S. Chatterjee & D. Rudra 1995
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Indosuchus sp.
Huene 1933
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ISI R 401-454 (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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Méndez et al. 2010 | |||||||||
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= Rahiolisaurus gujaratensis n. gen., n. sp.
Novas et al. 2010
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Novas et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| + ISI R464-465, 474-475, 486-553, 555-556, 558-602, 645, 649, 657-660 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Titanosaurus indicus
Lydekker 1877
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ISI R 467 | ||||||||||
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= Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Méndez et al. 2010 | |||||||||
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= Isisaurus sp.
Wilson and Upchurch 2003
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Wilson et al. 2019 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Ankylosauria indet.
(Osborn 1923)
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= Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Méndez et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Gujarat | County: | Kheda |
| Coordinates: | 23.1° North, 73.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.1° South, 57.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lameta | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Specimens derive from a single 50 m^2 bonebed quarry in the Lameta Formation "mudstone unit" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,coarse,gray,white cherty/siliceous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lenticular conglomeratic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a dinosaur bonebed in a mudstone facies of the Lameta Formation" "a white to gray, medium- to very coarse-grained sandstone, occasionally cherty and with small pockets of conglomeratic sandstones" (Wilson et al., 2019) | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Rock censused: | 5000 cm2 (area) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | S. Chatterjee & D. Rudra | Collection dates: | 1995 |
| Collection method comments: Geology Museum of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, collection | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:Bonebed yielded both abelisaurids and titanosaurids | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 95807 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-04-29 08:18:52 | Last modified: | 2022-05-04 11:16:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-04-29 08:18:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33029. | ETE | S. Chatterjee and D. K. Rudra. 1996. KT events in India: impact, rifting, volcanism and dinosaur extinction. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):489-532 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 32543 | ETE | A. H. Méndez, F. E. Novas, and S. Chatterjee. 2010. An abelisaurid humerus from the Upper Cretaceous of India. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83(3):421-425 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 34249 | ETE | F. E. Novas, S. Chatterjee, D. K. Rudra and P. M. Datta. 2010. Rahiolisaurus gujaratensis, n. gen. n. sp., a new abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of India. In S. Badyopadhyay (ed.), New Aspects of Mesozoic Biodiversity. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 132. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 45-62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 81580 | G. V. R. Prasad. 2012. Vertebrate biodiversity of the Deccan volcanic province of India: a review. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(6):597-610 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 79454 | J. A. Wilson, D. M. Mohabey, P. Lakra and A. Bhadran. 2019. Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) vertebrae from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of western and central India. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 33(1):1-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |