ammonites
Lavariya Muwada, Kheda (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Rahioli, Khevariya, Khevadiya

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Sandy Carbonate Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• 1 m below previously discovered level with eggs

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; paleosol/pedogenic, calcareous sandstone

• "calcretized paleosol"
• "calcretized sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

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 Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 18.05.2006