Asifabad A (Ada): Maastrichtian, India
collected 1982-1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia
Pelecypoda indet. Goldfuss 1820
synonym of Bivalvia
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis indicus Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Coupatezia sp. Cappetta 1982
Prasad 1989
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus sp. Dames 1881
Prasad 1989
    = Rhombodus informal sp. 1 Dames 1881
Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Rhombodus informal sp. 2 Dames 1881
Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
Orthacodus sp. Woodward 1889
Prasad 1989
synonym of Sphenodus
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Rajiformes indet. Berg 1940
Prasad and Cappetta 1993 3 specimens
VPL/JU 128–130
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758
Prasad 1989 7 specimens
VPL/JU 100–106
    = Raja sudhakari n. sp. Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Amphibia - Anura
Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879
Sahni 1984
    = Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813
Agnolin 2012
Reptilia
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758
Sahni et al. 1987
"snakes"
    = Booidea indet. Gray 1825
Prasad 1989
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Sahni et al. 1987
"lizards"
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Sahni et al. 1987
"crocodiles"
    = Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Rio and Mannion 2021
Reptilia - Megalosauridae
cf. Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
Prasad 1989
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
25 specimens
eggshell fragments
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Sahni 1984
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Palaeolabridae
Palaeolabrus dormaalensis Casier 1967
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Phareodus sp. Leidy 1873
Sahni 1984
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Alepisauridae
Apatodus sp.
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae
Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883
Prasad 1989
Eotrigonodon sp. Weiler 1929
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes
Indotrigonodon sp. Jain and Sahni 1983
Prasad 1989
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
cf. Belonostomus sp. Agassiz 1834
Sahni 1984
    = Belonostomus sp. Agassiz 1834
Prasad 1989
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Andhra Pradesh
Coordinates: 19.5° North, 79.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.8° South, 60.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:266 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Coeval to Takli Formation of Nagpur, intertrappean beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:very coarse,white calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology:green,white argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Calcareous gritty, white sandstone which attains a thickness of 0.75 m. The white sandstone grades vertically into whitish-green sandstone with an increase of clay content. The whitish-green sandstone measures upto 0.60 m."
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: 'lacustrine or laggonal conditions with minor fluvial inputs'; 'brackish water as well as freshwater conditions'
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils,some genera,species names
Collection methods:sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1982-1984
Metadata
Also known as:Intertrappean Beds of Asifabad
Database number:58100
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Maguire, P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-01-19 11:39:58 Last modified:2022-03-29 07:40:34
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-19 11:39:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15616.ETE A. Sahni, R. S. Rana, and G. V. R. Prasad. 1984. SEM studies of thin egg shell fragments from the intertrappeans (Cretaceous-Tertiary transition) of Nagpur and Asifabad, Peninsular India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 29:26-33 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

73340 F. Agnolin. 2012. A new Calyptocephalellidae (Anura, Neobatrachia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, with comments on its systematic position. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 48(2):129-178 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
14221ETE K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55935 S. L. Jain. 1986. Recent dinosaur discoveries in India, including egg shells, nests and coprolites. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
47228 S. L. Jain. 1989. Recent dinosaur discoveries in India, including eggshells, nests and coprolites. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 99-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19590ETE S. L. Jain and A. Sahni. 1985. Dinosaurian egg shell fragments from the Lameta Formation at Pisdura, Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. Geoscience Journal 6(2):211-220 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78375 V. V. Kapur and A. Khosla. 2019. Faunal elements from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary sequences of India: a reappraisal of biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic, and palaeobiogeographic aspects. Geological Journal 54(5):2797-2828 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78377 G. V. R. Prasad. 1989. Vertebrate fauna from the infra- and inter-trappean beds of Andhra Pradesh: age implications. Journal of the Geological Society of India 34:161-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78385 G. V. R. Prasad and H. Cappetta. 1993. Late Cretaceous selachians from India and the age of the Deccan Traps. Palaeontology 36(1):231-248 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81043 J. -C. Rage, G. V. R. Prasad, O. Verma, A. Khosla, and V. Parmar. 2020. Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate. In G. V. R. Prasad, R. Patnaik (eds.), Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up—A Tribute to Ashok Sahni 99-121 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
78086 J. P. Rio and P. D. Mannion. 2021. Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem. PeerJ 9:e12094:1-156 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62680 A. Sahni. 1984. Cretaceous-Paleocene terrestrial faunas of India: lack of endemism during drifting of the Indian Plate. Science 226(4673):441-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17380ETE A. Sahni, R. S. Rana, and G. V. R. Prasad. 1987. New evidence for paleobiogeographic intercontinental Gondwana relationships based on latest Cretaceous-earliest Paleocene coastal faunas from peninsular India. In G. D. McKenzie (ed.), Gondwana 6: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology. Geophysical Monograph 41:207-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18863ETE A. Sahni, S. K. Tandon, A. Jolly, S. Bajpai, A. Sood and S. Srinivasan. 1994. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs and nesting sites from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary province of peninsular India. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch & J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 204-226 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]