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Nimar Sandstone Formation is a geological formation from the Cenomanian of India.[1][2][3]

Paleobiota[edit | edit source]

Dinosaurs[edit | edit source]

Genus Species Material Notes Photos
Titanosauria[4] 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[4] Indeterminate "Fragmentary pieces of bones" Too poorly preserved to identify.

Fishes[edit | edit source]

Genus Species Material Notes
Coelodus C. malwaensis
Onchopristis O. indicus

Mollusca[edit | edit source]

Genus Species Material Notes
Ostreidae Indeterminate

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Omnath Saha; Uma Kant Shukla (November 2016). "Depositional environment of Nimar Sandstone of Cretaceous Bagh Group, Dhar District, M.P., India". 33rd Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists.
  2. Bhattacharya, Biplab; Jha, Suparna; Mondal, Prantik (December 2020). "Palaeogeographic reconstruction of a fluvio-marine transitional system in Narmada rift basin, India — Implications on Late Cretaceous global sea-level rise". Journal of Palaeogeography. 9 (1): 30. Bibcode:2020JPalG...9...30B. doi:10.1186/s42501-020-00078-6. ISSN 2524-4507.
  3. Akhtar, K.; Ahmad, A. H. M. (1 April 1991). "Single-cycle cratonic quartzarenites produced by tropical weathering: the Nimar sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), Narmada basin, India". Sedimentary Geology. 71 (1): 23–32. Bibcode:1991SedG...71...23A. doi:10.1016/0037-0738(91)90004-W. ISSN 0037-0738.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Khosla, Ashu; Kapur, Vivesh V.; Sereno, Paul C.; Wilson, Jeffrey A.; Wilson, Gregory P.; Dutheil, Didier; Sahni, Ashok; Singh, Mahendra Pal; Kumar, Surendra; Rana, Rajendra Singh (December 2003). "First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar Sandstone (Bagh Beds), District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India". Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India. 48 (1): 115-127. doi:10.1177/0971102320030108. ISSN 0552-9603.