Kallamedu
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Kallamedu Formation is a Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) geologic formation located in the Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, India that forms part of the Ariyalur Group. It dates to the Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains and petrified wood samples are among the known fossils recovered from this formation.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 5
Kallamedu Bone-Bed, Ariyalur : Tamil Nadu - Trichinopoly 7271 12367 14199 14539 17139 17182 18383 24161 30809 45858 54028 63592 63986 68859 78717 ca. 6 mi. from Ariyalur, Trichinopoly district, N of Kallamedu (Cullmoad) along the nala and in the bed of the Kallamedu water-course and other streams nearby; about 1 mi N of Rama Rao's "megalosaur" vertebra site- northwest of Kallamedu village : Tamil Nadu - ? 12367 17189 30809 46418 62814 NW of Kallamedu village, in the vicinity of Ariyalur. Listed as "northeast" by Galton & Ayyasami 2017.
- Sauropoda identifié comme Bruhathkayosaurus matleyi n. gen. n. sp.
- Sauropoda
- Cullmoad village, Ariyalur : Tamil Nadu - ? 14199 24161 64414 about 6 mi NE of Ariyalur, 100-150 yds E of abandoned village of Cullmoad (= Kallamedu)
- Kallamedu Field Site : Tamil Nadu - Ariyalur 46418 49733 70253 Cauvery Basin (map with co-ordinates in text), NE of Kallameda Village, ca. 10 km from Arilyalur. 300 kg sampled from three areas within field site marked on map. Sites are not individually distinguished.
- northeast of Cullmoad, Ariyalur : Tamil Nadu - ? 64415 0.75 mi. NE of abandoned village of Cullmoad (= Kallamedu)
Publication(s)
La base comprend 22 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 W. T. Blanford. 1862. On the Cretaceous and other rocks of the South Arcit, and Trichinopoly districts, Madras. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 4(1):1-217
- ↑1 F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1):1-74
- ↑1 2 P. Yadagiri and K. Ayyasami. 1979. A new stegosaurian dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous sediments of south India. Journal of the Geologicial Society of India 20(11):521-530
- ↑1 2 M. T. Carrano. 2025. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria.
- ↑1 C. A. Matley. 1931. Recent discoveries of dinosaurs in India. Geological Magazine 48:274-282 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800087239)
- ↑1 R. Lydekker. 1879. Fossil Reptilia and Batrachia. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica, Series IV. Indian Pretertiary Vertebrata 1(3):1-36
- ↑1 C. A. Matley. 1929. The Cretaceous dinosaurs of the Trichinopoly district, and the rocks associated with them. Records of the Geological Survey of India 51(4):337-349
- ↑1 R. Lydekker. 1877. Notices of new and other Vertebrata from Indian Tertiary and Secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India 10(1):30-43
- ↑1 2 L. Rama Rao. 1932. On a reptilian vertebra from the South Indian Cretaceous. The American Journal of Science, series 5 24(141):221-224
- ↑1 2 G. V. R. Prasad and A. Sahni. 1999. Were there size constraints on biotic exchanges during the northward drift of the Indian plate?. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy A (Physical Sciences) 65(3):377-396
- ↑1 A. F. d. Lapparent. 1957. The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa and India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2:109-112 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0552936019570116)
- ↑1 R. Lydekker. 1880. A sketch of the history of the fossil Vertebrata of India. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 49, part 2(1):8-40
- ↑1 F. v. Huene. 1927. Contribución a la paleogeografía de Sud América [Contribution to the paleogeography of South America]. Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina 30:231-294
- ↑1 E. D. Cope. 1878. Geology and palaeontology. The American Naturalist 12(2):128-130
- ↑1 D. M. Mohabey. 2011. History of Late Cretaceous dinosaur finds in India and current status of their study. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 56(2):127-135 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0971102320110201)
- ↑1 2 P. Yadagiri and K. Ayyasami. 1987. A carnosaurian dinosaur from the Kallamedu Formation (Maestrichtian horizon), Tamilnadu. In M. V. A. Sastry, V. V. Sastry, C. G. K. Ramanujam, H. M. Kapoor, B. R. Jagannatha Rao, P. P. Satsangi, & U. B. Mathur (eds.), Symposium on Three Decades of Development in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy in India. Volume 1. Precambrian to Mesozoic. Geological Society of India Special Publication 11(1):523-528
- ↑1 2 A. Goswami, G. V. R. Prasad, and O. Verma, J. J. Flynn, R. B. J. Benson. 2013. A troodontid dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of India. Nature Communications 4:1-5 (https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2716)
- ↑1 P. M. Galton and K. Ayyasami. 2017. Purported latest bone of a plated dinosaur (Ornithischia: Stegosauria), a "dermal plate" from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 285(1):91-96 (https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2017/0671)
- ↑1 2 C. R. Narayana Rao and L. Rama Rao. 1930. Some dinosaurian vertebrae. Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress, Allahabad 17:329
- ↑1 2 G. V. R. Prasad, O. Verma, and J. J. Flynn, A. Goswami. 2013. A new Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the Cauvery Basin, South India: implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6):1260-1268 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.777348)
- ↑1 O. Verma. 2015. Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of the Cauvery Basin, southern India: Palaeodiversity and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 431:53-67 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.04.021)
- ↑1 2 C. R. Narayana Rao and L. Rama Rao. 1930. The limb bones of a sauropodous dinosaur. Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress, Allahabad 17:330
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