Also known as Narayanpur, Náráyanpur
Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.8° N, 78.7° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° S, 62.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• intertrappean beds of the lower Deccan traps - but described by Hislop (1861) as infratrappean
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. T. Nicolls, C. Matley in pre-1854, 1925
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: S. Hislop. 1861. Remarks on the geology of Nágpur. Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 6:194-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67450: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Physa prinsepii Sowerby 1840 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Unio deccanensis freshwater mussel | |
Reptilia | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur |