Anjar pit BG1, Kachchh: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, India
collected by Z. Ghevariya & C. Srikarni

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cyprididae
Mongolianella palmosa
Bajpai and Prasad 2000
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Ilyocyprididae
Altanicypris szezechurae
Bajpai and Prasad 2000
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis sp. Cappetta 1972
Bajpai and Prasad 2000
Mammalia - Eutriconodonta
Indotriconodon magnus n. gen., n. sp. Bajpai et al. 2024
Bajpai et al. 2024
IITR/SB/ANJIT/101 - holotype
Reptilia - Fusioolithidae
Megaloolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995
Khosla and Sahni 1995 2 specimens
recombined as Fusioolithus baghensis
VPL/KH 560
Reptilia - Theropoda
Megalosauridae indet. (Fitzinger 1843)
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Bajpai and Prasad 2000
teeth
cf. Allosauridae indet. Marsh 1878
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Bajpai and Prasad 2000
teeth
Reptilia - Laevisoolithidae
Subtiliolithus kachchhensis n. sp. Khosla and Sahni 1995
Khosla and Sahni 1995 350 specimens
VPL/KH 580-583
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
1 individual
    = Titanosaurus indicus Lydekker 1877
Hansen et al. 2001
    = ? Isisaurus sp. Wilson and Upchurch 2003
Mohabey and Samant 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Gujarat County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.1° North, 70.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° South, 54.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:80 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the intertrappean, bed no. 3, between Deccan flows III and IV, dated between 65.3±0.6 and 65.1±1.5 my
C29r
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal siltstone
Secondary lithology: cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "cherty, splintery limestone and grey shale"; bed described as a "silty shale" and "siltstone with mollusc shell fragments"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,soft parts
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Z. Ghevariya & C. Srikarni
Collection method comments: both major skeletal remains and micro remains collected over a period of about a decade; quarrying and bulk/sieve sampling
Metadata
Also known as:1.5 km south of Vidi
Database number:60170
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-05-04 08:55:10 Last modified:2024-03-01 02:53:45
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-04 08:55:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18870.ETE Z. G. Ghevariya. 1988. Intertrappean dinosaur fossils from Anjar area, Kachchh district, Gujarat. Current Science 57(5):248-251 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

24531ETE S. Bajpai and G. V. R. Prasad. 2000. Cretaceous age for Ir-rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India. Journal of the Geological Society, London 157:257-260 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
87672 S. Bajpai, A. Rautela, R. Yadav and G. P. Wilson Mantilla. 2024. The first eutriconodontan mammal from the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2312234:1-10 [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]
76263 M. S. Fernández and A. Khosla. 2015. Parataxonomic review of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells belonging to the oofamily Megaloolithidae from India and Argentina. Historical Biology 27(2):158-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17311ETE H. J. Hansen, D. M. Mohabey, and P. Toft. 2001. No K/T boundary at Anjar, Gujarat, India: evidence from magnetic susceptibility and carbon isotopes. Proceedings of the Indian Acadamy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences) 110(2):133-142 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/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]
81638 A. Khosla and S. Bajpai. 2021. Dinosaur fossil records from India and their palaeobiogeographic implications: an overview. Journal of Palaeosciences 70:193-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19584ETE A. Khosla and A. Sahni. 1995. Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 40:87-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19788ETE D. M. Mohabey. 2001. Indian dinosaur eggs: a review. Journal of the Geological Society of India 58(6):479-508 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78717 D. M. Mohabey. 2011. History of Late Cretaceous dinosaur finds in India and current status of their study. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 56(2):127-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79455 D. M. Mohabey and B. Samant. 2013. Deccan continental flood basalt eruption terminated Indian dinosaurs before the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Geological Society of India Special Publication 1:260-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81580 G. V. R. Prasad. 2012. Vertebrate biodiversity of the Deccan volcanic province of India: a review. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(6):597-610 [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]
79454 J. A. Wilson, D. M. Mohabey, P. Lakra and A. Bhadran. 2019. Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) vertebrae from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of western and central India. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 33(1):1-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]