Dinosaur Nesting Site, Ghorpend (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Maru River, Salbardi

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (21.4° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 60.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; fine-grained, coarse, ferruginous, nodular, gray, yellow siltstone

• "channel related"
• "grayish yellow calcretized sandstone"; "one-meter thick, grayish yellow, medium to coarse grained calcretized sandstone. Petrographically, the rock contains sub-angular to sub-rounded, medium to coarse grains of quartz. The entire rock shows calcification in which the carbonate is non-ferroan micritie"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by GSI in 2015–2016

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. K. Srivastava and R. S. Mankar. 2015. Megaloolithus dinosaur nest from the Lameta Formation of Salbardi area, districts Amravati, Maharashtra and Betul, Madhya Pradesh. Journal of the Geological Society of India 85:457-462 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224188: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus cylindricus
Megaloolithus cylindricus Khosla and Sahni 1995 titanosaurid
SDE 1–5 (nest with eggs) in nest N1, plus N2, N3, N4