The Chari Formation is a Jurassic (Callovian to Oxfordian) geologic formation in Gujarat, western India.Chari Formation at Fossilworks.org Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. The ammonite Reineckeia has also been found here. The skulls of two marine crocodiles have also been found and have been putatively identified as Steneosaurus.
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Dinosaurs Sauropods of the Chari FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Sauropoda indet. Indeterminate Jumara JUM/V/1, proximal part of left tibia. An indeterminate sauropod
Thalattosuchians Thalattosuchians of the Chari FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Steneosaurus? S.? sp. Dhosa Oolith Two skulls, one of those skull is said to be 1602 mm in overall length. A large teleosaurid thalattosuchian
Mollusks
Ammonites Ammonites of the Chari FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Choffatia C. pardagatus Jumara A perisphincitid ammonite C. cobra Indosphinctes I. indica Jumara A perisphincitid ammonite Phlycticeras P. sp. JumaraA strigoceratid ammonite Reineckeia R. anceps Jumara A reineckeiid ammonite
Echinoderms Echinoderms of the Chari FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Alternacantha A. schwermannorum Jumara A ophiacanthid brittle star Hanshessia H. trochitophila Jumara A ophiacanthid brittle star Ishidacantha I. fuersichi Jumara A ophiacanthid brittle star Lapidaster L. etteri Jumara A ophiacanthid brittle star Ophiogaleus O. dorecki Jumara A Ophiacanthid brittle star
See also List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
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Bibliography
Further reading R. Dutta and S. Bardhan. 2016. Systematics, endemism and phylogeny of Indian proplanulitins (Ammonoidea) from the Bathonian–Callovian of Kutch, western India. Swiss Journal of Paleontology 135:23-56 M. Alberti, D. K. Pandey, and F. T. Fürsich. 2011. Ammonites of the genus Peltoceratoides Spath, 1924 from the Oxfordian of Kachchh, western India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 262:1-18 S. S. Das, S. Bardhan, and T. Kase. 2005. A new pleurotomariid gastropod assemblage from the Jurassic sequence of Kutch, western India. Paleontological Research 9(4):329-346 F. T. Fürsich, D. K. Pandey, W. Oschmann, A.K. Jaitly, and I.B. Singh. 1994. Ecology and adaptive strategies of corals in unfavourable environments: Examples from the Middle Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, western India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 194(2–3):269-303 D. N. Ghosh. 1990. Biometry of two species of Kallirhynchia (Buckman) from Callovian beds of Kutch, India. Brachiopods Through Time 97-100