Narainpur, Saugor (Cretaceous of India)

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
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Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio deccanensis freshwater mussel
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa prinsepii Sowerby 1840 snail
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -