Pranhita–Godavari Basin Explained

The Pranhita–Godavari Basin is a northwest–southeast striking geological structural basin (rift basin) in eastern India. The basin contains up to 7 kilometres of sedimentary strata of late Carboniferous/Early Permian to Cretaceous age.^[1] The basin is 400 km in length with a width of about 100 km and is terminated by the coast of the Indian Ocean on the southeast end.^[2]

The Late Permian aged Kundaram Formation has provided a terrestrial vertebrate fauna. The Late Triassic and the Early Jurassic strata in the basin host dinosaur fossils.^{[3] [4]} The Pranhita–Godavari Basin contains four Triassic–Jurassic formations, namely Lower Maleri, Upper Maleri, Lower Dharmaram and Upper Dharmaram.^{[3] [5]}

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

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Notes and References

1. http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/apr102005/1172.pdf B. S. P. Sarma1, and M. V. R. Krishna Rao; Basement structure of Godavari basin, India – Geophysical modelling, Current Science, V. 88, NO. 7, pp. 1172-5, 10 April 2005
2. http://www.dghindia.org/22.aspx Pranhita-Godavari Basin Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, Govt. of India
3. Fernando E. Novas . Martin D. Ezcurra . Sankar Chatterjee . T. S. Kutty . 2011 . New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India . Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 101 . 3-4 . 333–349 . 10.1017/S1755691011020093.
4. 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 . 10.1666/04-074.1 .
5. Book: Langer, M. C. . 2004 . Basal Saurischia . Weishampel, D. B. . Dodson, P. . Osmólska, H. . The Dinosauria . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press . Bloomington and Indianapolis . 25–46 .