Smith, A. B. (2010). The Cretaceous Bagh Formation, India: a Gondwanan window onto Turonian shallow-water echinoid faunas. Cretaceous Research. 31: 368-386.
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Smith, A. B.
2010
The Cretaceous Bagh Formation, India: a Gondwanan window onto Turonian shallow-water echinoid faunas
Cretaceous Research
31: 368-386
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The Bagh Formation of Madhya Pradesh (India) has yielded a rich echinoid fauna, but dating of this
sequence has so far been controversial. The marine invertebrate faunas come from a condensed shallowwater
succession of carbonates interrupted by several well-marked hardgrounds and depositional
hiatuses. Eleven echinoid species (one of them new to science) are recognized and their distribution
within the Bagh Formation is recorded. Five of these species have previously been recorded from strata in
the Antantiloky region of Madagascar that are securely dated as late Turonian on the basis of associated
ammonites. A further species is restricted to Turonian sediments in Egypt. The previously reported
Cenomanian aspect of this fauna reflects the paucity of comparable shallow-water Turonian faunas from
Europe and North Africa.
Keywords: Turonian, Echinoids, Madhya Pradesh, India, New taxa, Biostratigraphy