Also known as Lameta Ghat
Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.1° N, 79.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° S, 63.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Limestone Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)
• from Facies II in the Lower Limestone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; burrowed, paleosol/pedogenic, gray, blue, sandy, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone
• "either subaerially exposed palustrine flats or proximal fan surface" - a marshy lagoonal setting
• "a 1-1.5 m thick bluish-grey sandy limestone facies (Facies II). Silt-sand grains are interspersed within the fine-grained limestone. In this part, 10e20 cm thick sandy-shale units showing horizontal lamination and small rippled features often separate 40e50 cm thick hard beds of sandy limestone. Fine to coarse green sandstone, quartzite fragments and granules of jasper, vein quartz and chert are haphazardly dispersed and also form few cm thick lenses. Facies shows meter-wide scour and fill structures, extensive soft-sediment deformation and brecciated character. Shrinkage cracks filled with gravels, sparry calcite and cherty material are common. Calcrete lenses and nodules are present at different levels. Facies shows moderate to high degree of mottling. The lizard nest was recovered from the top of this lithofacies (Facies II)."
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. Khosla and A. Sahni. 1995. Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 40:87-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68167: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 05.01.2007
