Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate

摘要: The Maastrichtian intertrappean beds of Kisalpuri and Kelapur, India, have yielded new amphibian squamate reptile fossils that increase our knowledge these groups. In addition to focusing on two localities, we review the faunas amphibians squamates from other beds. sites aside a possible salamander, are all anurans. Costata (formerly Discoglossidae) Gobiatidae may be present Neobatrachia represented by four or five morphotypes. Importantly, one anurans (?Gobiatidae) appears identical form Late Cretaceous Central Asia. Squamates lizards snakes. Lizards comprise an Anguidae six indeterminate taxa, including scincomorphs. Snakes include primitive (possible stem) form, three Madtsoiidae, Nigerophiidae, perhaps booid, peculiar, unnamed taxon. These assemblages in India taxa both Laurasian Gondwanan origins, but most still unidentifiable at familial level below.