Deepanboopathy: Added new post - done

2026-04-16T14:49:27Z

Added new post - done

New page

{{short description|Geologic formation in India}}
{{Orphan|date=February 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox rockunit
| name = Nimar Sandstone Formation
| image =
| caption =
| type = [[Geological formation]]
| age = [[Late Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|Cenomanian}}
| period = Cenomanian
| prilithology =
| otherlithology =
| namedfor =
| namedby =
| region = [[Madhya Pradesh]]
| country = [[India]]
| coordinates = [[22.4° N, 74.8° E]]
| paleocoordinates =
| unitof =
| subunits =
| underlies = N/A
| overlies = N/A
| thickness =
| extent =
| area =
| map = {{Location map+ | India
| relief = 1
| width = 250
| float = center
| places =
{{Location map~ | India
| lat_deg = 22.4
| lon_deg = 74.8
| mark = Lightgreen pog.svg
| marksize = 10
}}
}}
| map_caption =
}}

'''Nimar Sandstone Formation''' is a [[geological formation]] from the [[Cenomanian]] of [[India]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311912189|journal=33rd Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists|date=November 2016|title=Depositional environment of Nimar Sandstone of Cretaceous Bagh Group, Dhar District, M.P., India|author=Omnath Saha|author2=Uma Kant Shukla}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Biplab |last2=Jha |first2=Suparna |last3=Mondal |first3=Prantik |date=December 2020 |title=Palaeogeographic reconstruction of a fluvio-marine transitional system in Narmada rift basin, India — Implications on Late Cretaceous global sea-level rise |journal=Journal of Palaeogeography |language=en |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=30 |doi=10.1186/s42501-020-00078-6 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020JPalG...9...30B |issn=2524-4507}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Akhtar |first1=K. |last2=Ahmad |first2=A. H. M. |date=1 April 1991 |title=Single-cycle cratonic quartzarenites produced by tropical weathering: the Nimar sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Narmada basin, India |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0037-0738%2891%2990004-W |journal=Sedimentary Geology |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=23–32 |doi=10.1016/0037-0738(91)90004-W |bibcode=1991SedG...71...23A |issn=0037-0738|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== Paleobiota ==
=== Dinosaurs ===
{| class="wikitable" align="center"
|-
! Genus !! Species !! Material !! Notes !! Photos
|-
| [[Titanosauria]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Khosla |first1=Ashu |last2=Kapur |first2=Vivesh V. |last3=Sereno |first3=Paul C. |author3-link=Paul Sereno |last4=Wilson |first4=Jeffrey A. |author4-link=Jeffrey A. Wilson |last5=Wilson |first5=Gregory P. |last6=Dutheil |first6=Didier |last7=Sahni |first7=Ashok |last8=Singh |first8=Mahendra Pal |last9=Kumar |first9=Surendra |last10=Rana |first10=Rajendra Singh |date=December 2003 |title=First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar Sandstone (Bagh Beds), District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0971102320030108 |journal=Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India |language=en |volume=48 |issue=1 |page=115-127 |doi=10.1177/0971102320030108 |issn=0552-9603 |url-access=limited }}</ref>
| Indeterminate
| Partial Skeleton Including a femur, humerus, radius, ulna and numerous fragmentary bones belonging at least to two individuals
| A new titanosaur species, possibly ancestral to the titanosaurs known from abundant remains from the [[Lameta Formation]] of peninsular India.
|
|-
| [[Dinosauria]]<ref name=":0" />
| Indeterminate
|"Fragmentary pieces of bones"
|Too poorly preserved to identify.
|
|}

=== Fishes ===
{| class="wikitable" align="center"
|-
! Genus !! Species !! Material !! Notes
|-
| ''[[Coelodus]]''
| ''C. malwaensis''
|
|
|-
| ''[[Onchopristis]]''
| ''O. indicus''
|
|
|-
|}

=== Mollusca ===
{| class="wikitable" align="center"
|-
! Genus !! Species !! Material !! Notes
|-
| ''[[Ostreidae]]''
| ''Indeterminate''
|
|
|-
|}

== References ==

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cenomanian Stage]]
[[Category:Geologic formations of India]]
[[Category:Cretaceous India]]
[[Category:Sandstone formations]]
[[Category:Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia]]

Nimar Sandstone Formation - Revision history

Deepanboopathy: Added new post - done