Upper Dharmaram Formation

Upper Dharmaram Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Jurassic (Sinemurian)
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Asia
Country India

The Upper Dharmaram Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation found in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is of Sinemurian age (Early Jurassic), and dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1][2]

Upper Dharmaram Formation is not to be confused with D.Dharmaram. D.Dharmaram is a village in Ramayampet mandal of Medak District, in Andhra Pradesh.

Vertebrate fauna

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Dinosaurs reported from the Upper Dharmaram Formation
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Lamplughsaura

L. dharmaramensis[2]

Possible basal Sauropod.

Pradhania

P. gracilis[2]

It was originally regarded as a basal sauropodomorph but new cladistic analysis suggests that Pradhania is a massospondylid.

See also

Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. 1 2 3 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. doi:10.1666/04-074.1.

References

Jurassic Period
Lower/Early Jurassic Middle Jurassic Upper/Late Jurassic
Hettangian | Sinemurian
Pliensbachian | Toarcian
Aalenian | Bajocian
Bathonian | Callovian
Oxfordian | Kimmeridgian
Tithonian


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