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.[1] The fauna found includes the dicynodonts Endothiodon, Dicynodontoides, Pristerodon and Sauroscaptor, as well as a small captorhinid and an indeterminate medium-sized gorgonopsid.[2]

Kundaram Formation
Stratigraphic range: Lopingian
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TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsLower and Upper Units
UnderliesKamthi Formation
OverliesBarakar Formation
Thickness250–400 m
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone, Sandstone
OtherShale
Location
Coordinates19.071556°N 79.491173°E / 19.071556; 79.491173
RegionTelangana
CountryIndia
ExtentPranhita–Godavari Basin
Kundaram Formation is located in India
Kundaram Formation
Kundaram Formation (India)

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. 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. doi:10.1002/spp2.1055. S2CID 88833541.
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