Lavariya Muwada, Kheda (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Rahioli, Khevariya, Khevadiya, Kevadia

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 57.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Sandy Carbonate Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• 1 m below previously discovered level with eggs

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; cherty/siliceous limestone and paleosol/pedogenic, calcareous sandstone

• "calcretized paleosol"
• "calcretized sandstone"; "egg clutches occur within the upper part of the siliceous limestone which is about 4 m thick"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Srivastava

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60597: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Ellipsoolithus khedaensis n. gen. n. sp.1, Trachoolithus sp. n. gen.2
Ellipsoolithus khedaensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Mohabey 1998 theropod
Kheda type B
Trachoolithus sp. n. gen.2 Mikhailov 1994 theropod
"oosp. nova"