Upper Maleri Formation
| Upper Maleri Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Triassic (late Norian–earliest Rhaetian) | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Asia |
| Country | India |
The Upper Maleri 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 late Norian and possibly earliest Rhaetian ages (Upper Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs.
Vertebrate fauna
Angistorhinus sp., cf. Leptosuchus, Aetosauria indet., a guaibasaurid (ISI R277) and 2 basal dinosauriforms (ISI R282, 284) 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 |
ISI R274, postcranial material.[1] |
A plateosaurid, also found in the Lower Dharmaram Formation. |
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N. roychowdhurii |
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ISI R273, including partial postcrania of at least three individuals of different sizes found closely associated.[1] |
A basal sauropodomorph | |||
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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.