Mortality dynamics and fossilisation pathways of a new metoposaurid-dominated multitaxic bonebed from India: a window into the Late Triassic vertebrate palaeoecosystem

A new bonebed recovered from the Late Triassic of India contains various macro- and microfossils, unionid bivalves and coprolites. The macrofossils include more than 700 identifiable skeletal specimens of 27 metoposaurid, four phytosaur and two rhynchosaur individuals whereas the microfossils comprise about 500 isolated teeth of varied chondrichthyans, dipnoans, actinopterygians, archosauriforms, and several non-mammalian cynodonts. The bonebed...