Thaiat Ridge tracksite (Jurassic to of India)

Also known as Jaisalmer

Where: Rajasthan, India (26.9° N, 71.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° S, 37.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thaiat Member (Lathi Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• from bed no. 5, tracks are sligthly separated within this bed (G. tenuis is higher).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; calcareous sandstone and siltstone

• nearshore tidal, brackish to marine: foreshore-intertidal environment
• "siltstone intercalated with very fine-grained sandstone, in parts slightly calcareous...The tops of the sandstone beds are covered with linguloid and ladder ripples; in places dessication cracks can be observed."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. Schlögl & G. Pienkowski in 2014

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Pienkowski, P. Branski, D. K. Pandey, J. Schlögl, M. Alberti and F. T. Fürsich. 2015. Dinosaur footprints from the Thaiat ridge and their palaeoenvironmental background, Jaisalmer Basin, Rajastan, India. Volumina Jurassica 13(1):17-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 168396: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes cf. giganteus, Grallator tenuis
Eubrontes cf. giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod
Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet.
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula sp.