ammonites
Bagh River, Jamniya Pura (upper) (Cretaceous to of India)

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (22.3° N, 74.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 48.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nimar Sandstone Formation (Bagh Beds Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• upper part of Nimar Sandstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; red, sandy shale and ferruginous, gray sandstone

• environmental interpretation ranges from "shallow water to near shore conditions with shifting sandy substrate and turbulent waters, shallow sub-littoral, intertidal to inner subtidal, shallow shelf deposits, and macrotidal estuarine complex environment comprising tidal channels."
• "red sandy shale beds" amidst the "upper part of grey ferruginous sandstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Khosla, V. V. Kapur, P. C. Sereno, J. A. Wilson, G. P. Wilson, D. Dutheil, A. Sahni, M. P. Singh, S. Kumar and R. S. Rana. 2003. First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar sandstone (Bagh Beds), district Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 48:115-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38522: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.04.2004