Andhra Pradesh State - India

An Early Jurassic age for the Kota Formation has been established on the basis of an associated and fairly diverse vertebrate essamblage that includes pholidophorid teleosteans, coalacanthid crossopterygians, the cetiosaurid, a campylognathoid pterosaur, a teleosaurid crocodylian, and kuhneotheriid and amphidontif symmetrodonts, (Dasgupta, 1993).

The Kota Formation consists of fluvial sediments with a prominent highly fossiliferous limestone band representing a playa-type condition (Maulik and Rudra, 1986). The limestone shows desiccation cracks and was probably laid down in a moderately hot climate under mainly sediment-depauperate conditions.


Barapasaurus tagorei - Sauropoda Vulcanodontidae - Jurassic Early Jurassic Middle Toarcian Aalenian Bajocian


Dandakosaurus indicus - Saurischia Theropoda - Jurassic Early



Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis - Sauropoda Vulcanodontidae - Jurassic Early Toarcian



Theropoda indet - Theropoda - Jurassic Early