Geologic formation in India
The Lower Maleri Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. It is the lowermost member of the Pranhita–Godavari Basin. It is of late Carnian to early Norian age (Upper Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the basal saurischian (possible theropod) Alwalkeria.[1]
Vertebrate fauna
cf. Angistorhinus and cf. Typothorax have also been recovered from it.[2][3]
Correlations
The formation has been correlated with the Molteno Formation (Karoo Basin) and Pebbly Arkose Formation of Africa, the Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in Brazil, the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin of Argentina and the lowermost Chinle Formation of North America.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.525–527
- ^ a b c d e Novas et al, 2011
- ^ Kutty et al., 2007
- ^ "Table 2.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 26.
- ^ "Table 12.1," in Weishampel et al., 2004, p.236
- ^ Novas et al., 2011, p.343
Bibliography
- Novas, Fernando E.; Ezcurra, Martín D.; Chatterjee, Sankar; Kutty, T.S. (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, Bibcode:2010EESTR.101..333N, doi:10.1017/S1755691011020093, retrieved 6 April 2019
- Kutty, T.S.; Chatterjee, S.; Galton, P.M.; Upchurch, P. (2007), "Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Jurassic of India: their anatomy and relationships", Journal of Paleontology, 81 (6): 1552–1574, Bibcode:2007JPal...81.1218K, doi:10.1666/04-074.1
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 21 February 2019
