Andhra Pradesh State - India

The Late Triassic age of the Maleri Formation at Nennal Andrah Pradesh, India, which contains at least four generically similar taxa to the Dockum fauna of Texas, has been established on the basis of associated vertebrates, including metoposaurid and chigutisaurid temnospondylus, rhynchosaurid and phytosaurid reptiles, and traversodontid cynodonts (Dasgupta, 1993).

Dinosaurs have also been discovered in the overlying Dharmaran Formation (Kutty, 1969; Jain and Roychowdhury, 1987). The Maleri Fm. consists of red clays, fine to medium sandstones, and peloidal calcarenites (Dasgupta, 1993). The landscape appears to be seasonally well watered with a preponderance of water bodies in which unionids and a variety of fishes and semiaquatic tetrapods lived (Jain, 1980).


Alwalkeria maleriensis - Saurischia Theropoda - Triassic Late Carnian Norian


Jaklapallisaurus asymmetrica - Prosauropoda Plateosauridae - Triassic Late Carnian Norian



Massospondylus hislopi -Prosauropoda Nomina Dubia - Triassic Late Carnian Norian



Nambalia roychowdhurii - Saurischia Sauropodomorpha - Triassic Late Carnian Norian



Walkeria maleriensis - Saurischia Theropoda - Triassic Late Carnian Norian



Anchisaurus indet - Prosauropoda - Triassic Late Carnian Norian