Fossil Vertebrates of the Lower Maleri Formation of India
Type Horizon and Locality: Late Triassic, Lower Maleri Formation (Carnian) Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India
Represented here:
Alwalkeria maleriensis (Chatterjee, 1987), a small dinosaur known from incomplete remains, possibly a basal Saurischian.
Exaeretodon statisticae Chatterjee, 1982, a large herbivorous traversodont cynodont. The genus is also found in Brazil and Argentina. The species E. statisticae is known from a fragmentary skull.
Hyperodapedon huxleyi (Lydekker, 1881), a rhynchosaur. The genus is largely distributed in South and North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. The Indian species H. huxleyi was originally placed in the genus Paradapedon.
Malerisaurus robinsonae Chatterjee, 1980, a probably insectivorous protorosaur. Remains have been found as the last meal of the phytosaur Parasuchus hislopi.
Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker, 1885, a phytosaur, a kind of archosauromorph with a croc body plan, top predator of its time.
The Lower Maleri Formation has also yielded remains of at least one type of indeterminate prosauropod.
February 2, 2020
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