Lower Dharmaram Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Triassic (latest Norian – Rhaetian) |
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Type | Geological formation |
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Region | Asia |
Country | India |
The Lower Dharmaram Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the formations of the Pranhita–Godavari Basin. It is of latest Norian and Rhaetian ages (Upper Triassic), and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs.
cf. Paratypothorax, cf. Nicrosaurus, fragmentary remains of sauropodomorphs (ISI R279, 280, 281) and neotheropods (ISI R283) have also been recovered from it.
J. assymetrica
"ISI R279, distal end of right femur."
A plateosaurid, also found in the Upper Maleri Formation.