ammonites
Temple Hill, Rahioli (cgl) (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 73.3° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 57.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "infratrappean" sediments of the Lameta Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; calcareous, cherty/siliceous conglomerate and sandy, calcareous sandstone

• "sheet-wash deposit"
• "The bones were preserved in a conglomeratic layer that lies below a dinosaur tooth-bearing calcareous sandstone." (Wilson et al., 2003)

•"A conglomeratic formation with a siliceous or calcareous matrix forming the lower part grading successively into gritty, siliceous or calcareous types." (Dwivedi et al., 1985)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1982-1984

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• "There are probably additional bones beyond the edge of the current map, which shows only those portions excavated from 1982 through 1984."

Primary reference: G. N. Dwivedi, D. M. Mohabey, and S. Bandyopadhyay. 1985. On the discovery of vertebrate fossils from infratrappean Lameta Beds, Kheda district, Gujarat. M. S. Srinivasan, R. K. Lal, and V. K. Gairola (eds.), Proceedings of the IV Indian Geological Congress (1982), Current Trends in Geology 7:79-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34725: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 17.09.2003