Meanings
adjectiveintertrappean (not comparable)
- not comparablegeographyBetween successive basaltic lava flows
The fossil crocodilian eggshells reported from Late Cretaceous intertrappean beds, Bombay [34 ], differ from the present eggshells in being thinner (~.35 mm) showing distinct mammillary layer and with diverging micro crystallites.
2015 December 8, “Crocodilian Nest in a Late Cretaceous Sauropod Hatchery from the Type Lameta Ghat Locality, Jabalpur, India”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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