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Tiki

Description

Source: Wikipédia

The Tiki Formation is a Late Triassic (Carnian to Norian) geologic formation in Madhya Pradesh, northern India. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus. Phytosaur remains attributable to the genus Volcanosuchus have also been found in the Tiki Formation.
The genera Tikiodon, Tikitherium and Tikisuchus and species Rewaconodon tikiensis, Hyperodapedon tikiensis and Parvodus tikiensis have been named after the Tiki Formation.

Découvertes

Source: The Paleobiology Database

Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 5
  • drapeau Inde Tiki village : Madhya Pradesh - Shadol 17140 32311 43742
  • 1.5 km south of Tiki village
  • drapeau Inde 4 km southwest of Tiki Village : Madhya Pradesh - Shahdol 36672 71703
  • 4 km SW of Tiki village, southern Rewa Gondwana Basin. Coords from Kumar and Sharma (2019), as they mention a locality near Simaudh village [that is 4km SW of Tiki]; presumably same locality.
  • drapeau Inde near Tiki village : Madhya Pradesh - ? 56630 71703
  • Tiki Formation of the Rewa Gondwana Basin (Late Triassic); near the village of Tiki (=Tihki) (23° 56' N, 81° 22' 58" E), Shahdol District, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • drapeau Inde rhynchosaur bonebed, Tiki village : Madhya Pradesh - Shahdol 56732 69511 81638
  • "The fossil locality covers an area of about 250 × 217 m2, which was systematically explored and excavated after removing the overburden rock layers, which varied in thickness from 200 mm to about 1 m, and revealed nine isolated pockets/sites of rich megavertebrate accumulation with a cumulative surface area of 125 m2"
  • drapeau Inde Red mudstone bed near Jora village : Madhya Pradesh - Shahdol 56732 71703
  • Coordinates for Jora given in text (N 23°53.884’; E 81°21.019’), converted into decimal because PBDB wasn't picking up exact location

Publication(s)

La base comprend 9 publication(s).

Source: The Paleobiology Database

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