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Kundaram Formation

The Kundaram Formation is a geological formation in India, located within the Pranhita–Godavari Basin. The unit is between 250–400 metres thick and at its base consists of sandstone-mudstone alterations, followed by a sequence dominated by red mudstone with infrequent sandstone lens beds, with minor ferruginous shale within the sandstones. It was deposited in fluvial conditions. It is considered to be Late Permian in age. An abundant terrestrial fauna is known from nodules found near the village of Golleti in the Adilabad district of Telangana, the only such fauna known from the Permian of India. The fauna found includes the dicynodonts Endothiodon, Dicynodontoides, Pristerodon and Sauroscaptor, as well the small captorhinid Indosauriscus and an indeterminate medium-sized gorgonopsid.

Paleobiota

Synapsids

Genus Species Location Material Notes Images
Endothiodon E. mahalanobisi Telangana Numerous almost complete specimens A dicynodont.
E. bathystoma
Dicynodontoides sp. Telangana ISI R 217 A dicynodont.
Sauroscaptor S. tharavati Telangana A dicynodont.
Pristerodon P. mackayi Telangana A dicynodont.
?Oudenodon sp. Telangana A dicynodont
Gorgonopsia Indeterminate Telangana A gorgonopsid.

Reptiles

Genus Species Location Material Notes Images
Indosauriscus Indeterminate Telangana A captorhinid reptile.

References

  1. ^ Ray, Sanghamitra; Bandyopadhyay, Saswati (March 2003). "Late Permian vertebrate community of the Pranhita–Godavari valley, India". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 21 (6): 643–654. Bibcode:2003JAESc..21..643R. doi:10.1016/S1367-9120(02)00050-0.
  2. ^ Kammerer, Christian F.; Bandyopadhyay, Saswati; Ray, Sanghamitra (November 2016). Angielczyk, Kenneth (ed.). "A new taxon of cistecephalid dicynodont from the upper Permian Kundaram Formation of India". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (4): 569–584. Bibcode:2016PPal....2..569K. doi:10.1002/spp2.1055. S2CID 88833541.
  3. ^ Reisz, Robert R.; Chatterjee, Sankar; Modesto, Sean P. (2024-11-14). "A new moradisaurine captorhinid reptile (Amniota: Eureptilia) from the upper Permian of India". PeerJ. 12: e18394. doi:10.7717/peerj.18394. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 11569782.