Anjar pit BG1, Kachchh (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as 1.5 km south of Vidi

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 54.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower part of the intertrappean, bed no. 3, between Deccan flows III and IV, dated between 65.3±0.6 and 65.1±1.5 my

•C29r

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shelly/skeletal siltstone and cherty/siliceous limestone

• "cherty, splintery limestone and grey shale"; bed described as a "silty shale" and "siltstone with mollusc shell fragments"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts

Collected by Z. Ghevariya & C. Srikarni

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical,

• both major skeletal remains and micro remains collected over a period of about a decade; quarrying and bulk/sieve sampling

Primary reference: Z. G. Ghevariya. 1988. Intertrappean dinosaur fossils from Anjar area, Kachchh district, Gujarat. Current Science 57(5):248-251 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60170: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 04.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Ilyocyprididae
 Podocopida - Cyprididae
Mammalia
 Eutriconodonta -
Indotriconodon magnus n. gen. n. sp.2
Indotriconodon magnus n. gen. n. sp.2 Bajpai et al. 2024 mammal
IITR/SB/ANJIT/101 - holotype
Reptilia
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis3
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis3 Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
VPL/KH 560
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Laevisoolithidae
Subtiliolithus kachchhensis n. sp.3 Khosla and Sahni 1995 theropod
VPL/KH 580-583
 Saurischia -
? Isisaurus sp.4 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis sp.1 Cappetta 1972 eagle ray