Lower Dharmaram Formation
| Lower Dharmaram Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Triassic (latest Norian – Rhaetian) | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Asia |
| Country | India |
The Lower Dharmaram Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the formations of the Pranhita–Godavari Basin. It is of latest Norian and Rhaetian ages (Upper Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs.
Vertebrate fauna
cf. Paratypothorax, cf. Nicrosaurus, fragmentary remains of sauropodomorphs (ISI R279, 280, 281) and neotheropods (ISI R283) have also been recovered from it.[1]
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Dinosaurs reported from the Upper Maleri Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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J. assymetrica[1] |
A plateosaurid, also found in the Upper Maleri Formation. |
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See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fernando E. Novas, Martin D. Ezcurra, Sankar Chatterjee and T. S. Kutty (2011). "New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101 (3-4): 333–349. doi:10.1017/S1755691011020093.
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.