Takli Formation
Appearance
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Takli Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Maastrichtian | |
Type | Geological formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Claystone, siltstone, marl |
Location | |
Coordinates | 21°12′N 79°06′E / 21.2°N 79.1°E |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 26°12′S 61°30′E / 26.2°S 61.5°E |
Region | Maharashtra, Gujarat |
Country | India |
Type section | |
Named for | Tákli Plain |
The Takli Formation is a Maastrichtian geologic formation in India.[1] Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]
Paleobiota
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
[edit]- Sauropods
Sauropods from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Fusioolithus | F. baghensis | eggshell fragments | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | Sauropod Eggs. | |
Sauropoda[3][4] | Indeterminate | tooth | Gujarat | Maastrichtian | A Sauropod. | |
Titanosauridae | Indeterminate | teeth | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Titanosaur. |
- Theropods
Theropods from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
?Coelurosauria[4] | Indeterminate | teeth | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | Coelurosauria was a common wastebasket taxon. | |
?Megalosauridae | Indeterminate | teeth | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | Megalosauridae was a common wastebasket taxon. | |
Massospondylus[5][6] | M. rawesi | Tooth | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | Previously thought to be a Massospondylus now thought to have been an indeterminate Theropod.[7][8] | |
Theropoda[9] | Indeterminate | Teeth. | Gujarat | Maastrichtian | An indeterminate theropod. |
Other Archosaurs
[edit]Other Archosaurs from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Archosauria[4] | Indeterminate | teeth | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | Either a saurischian or a crocodillan. | |
Crocodyliformes[10] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Crocodyliform. |
Lepidosaurs
[edit]Lepidosaurs from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Gekkonidae[11] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Gecko. | ||
Boidae[12][13] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snake. | ||
Scincomorpha[12][13] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Scincomorph. | ||
?Contogenys[11] | sp. | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Globaurid. | ||
Anguidae[14] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Anguid. | ||
Litakis[11] | sp. | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Platynota. | ||
Exostinus | E. estesi[11]
E. estesai |
Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Xenosaurid. | ||
Pristiguana | P. sp. | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | An Iguanid. | ||
Iguanidae[11] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | An iguanid. |
Amphibians
[edit]Amphibians from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Anura[15] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Frog. | ||
Pelobatidae[13] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Spadefoot Toad. |
Fish
[edit]Mammals
[edit]Mammals from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Symmetrodonta[14] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | An Allotherian Mammal. |
Molluscas
[edit]Molluscas from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Bivalvia | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Clam. | ||
Limnaea | sp. | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snail. | ||
Valvata | sp. | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snail. | ||
Paludina | sp. | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snail. | ||
Physa | P. prinsepii | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snail. |
Crustaceans
[edit]Crustaceans from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Ostracoda[17] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | An Ostracod. |
Turtles
[edit]Turtles from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
Pelomedusidae[14] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Pelomedusid Turtle. | ||
Testudinata | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Turtle. |
Insects
[edit]Insects from the Takli Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Material | Location | Time Period | Notes | Images |
?Buprestidae[18] | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Jewel beetle. | ||
Lomatus[18][19] | L. hislopi | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Jewel beetle. | ||
?Curculionidae | Indeterminate | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snout beetle. | ||
Meristos[18] | M. hunteri | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snout beetle. | ||
Palaeotanymecides[18] | P. hislopi | Maharashtra | Maastrichtian | A Snout beetle. |
Flora
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tákli Plain, northwest of Nagpur at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ A. Sahni and S. Bajpai. 1988. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events: the fossil vertebrate, palaeomagnetic and radiometric evidence from Peninsualr India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 32(5):382-395
- ^ a b c Vianey-Liaud, Monique; Jain, Sohan L.; Sahni, Ashok (1988-01-22). "Dinosaur eggshells (Saurischia) from the Late Cretaceous Intertrappean and Lameta formations (Deccan, India)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 7 (4): 408–424. Bibcode:1988JVPal...7..408V. doi:10.1080/02724634.1988.10011673. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ R. Lydekker. 1890. Note on certain vertebrate remains from the Nagpur district. Records of the Geological Survey of India 23(1):21-24
- ^ Weishampel, David B. (1990). "Dinosaur distribution". In David B. Weishampel; Peter Dodson; Halszka Osmólska (eds.). The Dinosauria (1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 63–139. ISBN 978-0-520-06727-1.
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230808666_The_history_of_dinosaur_collecting_in_Central_India_1828-1947
- ^ Molina-Pérez, Rubén; Larramendi, Asier; Atuchin, Andrey; Mazzei, Sante; Connolly, David; Ramírez Cruz, Gonzalo Ángel (2019). Dinosaur facts and figures: the theropods and other dinosauriformes. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-18031-1. OCLC 1051136420.
- ^ A. Sahni and S. Bajpai. 1988. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events: the fossil vertebrate, palaeomagnetic and radiometric evidence from Peninsualr India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 32(5):382-395
- ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (2021-09-06). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
- ^ a b c d e Kapur, Vivesh V.; Khosla, Ashu (2018-12-03). "Faunal elements from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary sequences of India: A reappraisal of biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic, and palaeobiogeographic aspects". Geological Journal. 54 (5): 2797–2828. doi:10.1002/gj.3379. ISSN 0072-1050.
- ^ a b c d e f S. L. Jain. 1989. Recent dinosaur discoveries in India, including eggshells, nests and coprolites. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 99-108
- ^ a b c Rage, Jean-Claude; Prasad, Guntupalli V. R.; Verma, Omkar; Khosla, Ashu; Parmar, Varun (2020), Prasad, Guntupalli V.R.; Patnaik, Rajeev (eds.), "Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate", Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up–A Tribute to Ashok Sahni, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 99–121, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49753-8_6, ISBN 978-3-030-49753-8, retrieved 2024-08-18
- ^ a b c d e f g h http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/vol35/v11.pdf
- ^ a b S. Hislop. 1861. Remarks on the geology of Nágpur. Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 6:194-204
- ^ a b c d https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282319217_Vertebrate_fauna_from_the_infra-_and_inter-trappean_beds_of_Andhra_Pradesh_age_implications
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258963754_New_Evidence_for_Paleobiogeographic_Intercontinental_Gondwana_Relationships_Based_on_Late_Cretaceous-Earliest_Paleocene_Coastal_Faunas_from_Peninsular_India
- ^ a b c d A. Murray. 1860. Notes on some fossil insects from Nagpur. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:182-186
- ^ Bellamy, C. L. (2013). "Fossil Buprestidae". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 7 Sep 2021.
Bibliography
[edit]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 1–880. ISBN 0-520-24209-2. Retrieved 2019-02-21.