ammonites
Carnosaur Bed, Bara Simla (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as jabalpur

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.2° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 63.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnosaur Bed Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• found as a pocket/lens below the Lower/Main Limestone of the Lameta Group and at the top of the Greensand Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; glauconitic, green sandstone

• greensand with autochthonous glauconite; geology of "carnosaur bed" not described

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. A. Matley, B. Brown in 1917-1922; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

• initial collection by Matley, later by Brown

Primary reference: C. A. Matley. 1919. On the remains of carnivorous dinosaurs from the Lameta beds at Jubbulpore. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series 15:cxcviii-cxcix [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26373: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 14.10.2002

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