Upper Maleri Formation

The Upper Maleri Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Telangana, India. It is one of the formations of the Pranhita–Godavari Basin. It is of late Norian and possibly earliest Rhaetian ages, and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs.

Paleobiota

Dinosauriforms

An unnamed guaibasaurid was present in the formation based on associated vertebrae, hip, and hindlimb material, specimens ISI R277. Two more indeterminate dinosauriform species are also known from the formation, based on specimens ISI R282 and ISI R284. Material from the formation has also been referred to Herrerasauridae.

Other amniotes

fossils are known from the formation, including forms similar to Angistorhinus and Leptosuchus.'''' Indeterminate aetosaurs and dicynodonts have also been reported.''''

Temnospondyls

Fish

Correlations

The formation has been correlated with the Forest Sandstone of Africa, the lower Caturrita Formation of the Paraná Basin in Brazil, the upper Ischigualasto Formation and lower Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin of Argentina, and the Chinle Formation of North America.