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
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Mongolianella palmosa
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Bajpai and Prasad 2000 | |||||||||
Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Ilyocyprididae
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Altanicypris szezechurae
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Bajpai and Prasad 2000 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Igdabatis sp.
Cappetta 1972
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Bajpai and Prasad 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Eutriconodonta
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Indotriconodon magnus n. gen., n. sp.
Bajpai et al. 2024
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Bajpai et al. 2024 | |||||||||
IITR/SB/ANJIT/101 - holotype | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Fusioolithidae
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Megaloolithus baghensis
Khosla and Sahni 1995
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Khosla and Sahni 1995 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Fusioolithus baghensis | ||||||||||
VPL/KH 560 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Megalosauridae indet.
(Fitzinger 1843)
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Bajpai and Prasad 2000 | |||||||||
teeth | ||||||||||
cf. Allosauridae indet.
Marsh 1878
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Bajpai and Prasad 2000 | |||||||||
teeth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Laevisoolithidae
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Subtiliolithus kachchhensis n. sp.
Khosla and Sahni 1995
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Khosla and Sahni 1995 | 350 specimens | ||||||||
VPL/KH 580-583 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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1 individual | |||||||||
= Titanosaurus indicus
Lydekker 1877
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Hansen et al. 2001 | |||||||||
= ? Isisaurus sp.
Wilson and Upchurch 2003
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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:
24531 | ETE | 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] | |
14221 | ETE | 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] | |
17311 | ETE | 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] | |
19584 | ETE | 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] |
19788 | ETE | 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] | |
18863 | ETE | 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] |