Dholi Dungri (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Dholidungri; Dhoridungri, Dhori Dungri

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 57.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• C30n

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, red, calcareous sandstone

• "dinosaur nesting ground" (Wilson et al. 2010)
• "red calcretized sandstone"/"arenaceous limestone" (Mohabey 1987) or "Carbonate- and silica-cemented, poorly sorted with angular quartzite clasts" (Wilson et al. 2010)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. M. Mohabey in 1984; reposited in the GSI

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• Geological Survey of India collection

•"prepared by a combination of chemical and mechanical techniques" including use of "3% formic acid" (Wilson et al. 2010)

Primary reference: D. M. Mohabey. 1987. Juvenile sauropod dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Panchmahals District, Gujarat, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 30(3):210-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61499: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• collection also includes a clutch with eggs described only as "incertae sedis"
unclassified
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Reptilia
 Squamata -
Sanajeh indicus n. gen. n. sp.5
Sanajeh indicus n. gen. n. sp.5 Wilson et al. 2010 snake
 Saurischia -
? Titanosauria indet.2 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
"partial skeleton of a juvenile sauropod"
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
? Megaloolithus sp.4 Mikhailov 1991 titanosaurid
"incertae sedis"
Megaloolithus dhoridungriensis n. sp.3 Mohabey 1998 titanosaurid