Balasinor Quarry, Kheda (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.0° N, 73.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 57.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• infratrappean

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; brown, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone and lenticular, yellow, calcareous claystone

• "palustrine"
• "calcretized sandstone (sandly limestone)"; "arenaceous limestone"; "within the grey and brown-coloured infratrappean limestone...[which] is very siliceous and is often associated with yellow calcareous clay stone and brown marl lenses"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Mohabey in 1982

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: D. M. Mohabey. 1983. Note on the occurrence of dinosaurian fossil eggs from infratrappean limestone in Kheda district, Gujarat. Current Science 52(24):1194 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178974: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus balasinorensis n. sp." = Fusioolithus baghensis
"Megaloolithus balasinorensis n. sp." = Fusioolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur