Temple Hill, Rahioli (ls): Maastrichtian, India
collected by S. Srivastava 1982-1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
11 individuals
clutches; 147/CRP/96
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Srivastava et al. 1986
Kheda type B
    = Megaloolithus rahioliensis n. sp. Mohabey 1998
Mohabey 1998
synonym of Megaloolithus cylindricus
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Gujarat County:Kheda
Coordinates: 23.1° North, 73.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.1° South, 57.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:101 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Formation:Lameta
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: level above sandstone with Rajasaurus; two sub-levels within it
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,quartzose sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology: calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "calcareous sandstone to siliceous limestone at times with stray feldspar fragment, quartz and chert." "The eggs occur in the limestone which overlies a prolific dinosaur bone bearing sandstone. In the upper part, the limestone is streaky and contains a greater percentage of sub-angular to angular clasts of quartz grains." "a fine-grained arenaceous limestone (calcrete)" (Wilson et al., 2019)
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Srivastava Collection dates:1982-1984
Metadata
Database number:61496
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-06-14 13:23:55 Last modified:2023-11-13 15:39:21
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-14 13:23:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19592. D. M. Mohabey. 1984. Pathologic dinosaurian eggshells from Kheda district, Gujarat. Current Science 53(13):701-703 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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86456 R. Cousin. 2002. Organisation des pontes de dinosauriens de la parafamille des Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979 [Organization of dinosaur clutches of the parafamily Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979]. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique du Normandie et Amis du Muséum du Havre 89(1–4):1-177 [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]
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]
78405 S. Kumar, M. P. Singh, and D. M. Mohabey. 1999. Lameta and Bagh Beds, Central India. Field Guide 1-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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56176 D. J. Varricchio, X. Jin, and F. D. Jackson. 2015. Lay, brood, repeat: nest reuse and site fidelity in ecologic time for two Cretaceous troodontid dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(3):e932797:1-9 [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]