Also known as Phizdura, PIS 1, PIS 2
Where: Maharashtra, India (20.4° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 61.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• infratrappean
•C29r
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace, replaced with phosphate, coprolite
Collected by Hislop, Blanford, Hughes, Matley, Ghosh in 1850–1860, 1877, 1920, 1932; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (float),
• first collections by Hislop, 1850-1860 and Blanford, 1859; subsequent collections all from same area: T. W. H. Hughes (1877); C. A. Matley (1920), Matley's Percy Sladen Trust Expedition (1932)
Primary reference: S. Hislop. 1859. On the Tertiary deposits, associated with trap-rock, in the East Indes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:154-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26370: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dicotyledoneae | |
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Polypodiopsida | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
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? Antarctosaurus sp.5, Isisaurus sp.9, cf. Titanosaurus indicus5, Titanosaurus blanfordi n. sp.4, "cf. Laplatasaurus madagascariensis" = Titanosaurus madagascariensis5
? Antarctosaurus sp.5 Huene 1927 sauropod GSI K27/509 (L MT I), 510 (?ischium), 512 (chevron), 513 & 515–521 (ribs)
cf. Titanosaurus indicus5 Lydekker 1877 sauropod GSI K27/503–504 & P5 (caudal vertebrae), 511 (distal L radius), 507 (prox. MC)
"cf. Laplatasaurus madagascariensis" = Titanosaurus madagascariensis5 Depéret 1896 sauropod GSI K27/522 (sacral vertebra), 498–500 (caudal vertebrae)
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Madtsoia pisdurensis n. sp.7
Madtsoia pisdurensis n. sp.7 Mohabey et al. 2011 snake 225/GSI/PAL/CR/10 to 231/GSI/PAL/CR/10; possibly 1 individual, 11 total specimens
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"Hydraspis leithi" = Carteremys leithii3
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Gastropoda | |
Paludina deccanensis snail | |
Physa prinsepii Sowerby 1840 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Notothyrites sp.9 Cookson 1947
Phragmothyrites eocaenica9 Edwards 1922 | |
Archaeoglomus globatus | |
Archaeoglomus globatus n. gen. n. sp.9
Archaeoglomus globatus n. gen. n. sp.9 Sharma et al. 2005 | |
Protoerysiphe indicus | |
Protoerysiphe indicus n. gen. n. sp.9
Protoerysiphe indicus n. gen. n. sp.9 Sharma et al. 2005 | |
Lithouncinula lametaensis | |
Lithouncinula lametaensis n. gen. n. sp.9
Lithouncinula lametaensis n. gen. n. sp.9 Sharma et al. 2005 |