Lametaghat, Narmada Valley (north bank) (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Lameta Ghat

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.1° N, 79.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 63.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• from Facies II in the Lower Limestone

•C29r

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; burrowed, paleosol/pedogenic, gray, blue, sandy, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone

• "either subaerially exposed palustrine flats or proximal fan surface" - a marshy lagoonal setting
• "a 1-1.5 m thick bluish-grey sandy limestone facies (Facies II). Silt-sand grains are interspersed within the fine-grained limestone. In this part, 10e20 cm thick sandy-shale units showing horizontal lamination and small rippled features often separate 40e50 cm thick hard beds of sandy limestone. Fine to coarse green sandstone, quartzite fragments and granules of jasper, vein quartz and chert are haphazardly dispersed and also form few cm thick lenses. Facies shows meter-wide scour and fill structures, extensive soft-sediment deformation and brecciated character. Shrinkage cracks filled with gravels, sparry calcite and cherty material are common. Calcrete lenses and nodules are present at different levels. Facies shows moderate to high degree of mottling. The lizard nest was recovered from the top of this lithofacies (Facies II)."

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Sahni and A. Tripathi. 1990. Age implications of the Jabalpur Lameta Formation and intertrappean biotas. In A. Sahni & A. Jolly (ed.), Cretaceous Event Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Indian Nonmarine Strata. Contributions from the Seminar cum Workshop, IGCP Projects 216 and 245 35-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68167: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis1
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis1 Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
VPL/KH/271–272
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet.2 Hay 1930 crocodilian
nest; LU/RS-01/9; VPL/CCE 3–5