Pranhita–Godavari Basin

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

The Pranhita–Godavari Basin is a northwest–southeast striking geological structural basin (rift basin) in central India. The basin contains up to 7 kilometres of sedimentary strata of late Carboniferous/Early Permian to Cretaceous age.[http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/apr102005/1172.pdf B. S. P. Sarma1, and M. V. R. Krishna Rao; Basement structure of Godavari basin, India – Geophysical modelling, Current Science, V. 88, NO. 7, pp. 1172-5, 10 April 2005 ]

The basin is 400 km in length with a width of about 100 km and is terminated by the coast of the Indian Ocean on the southeast end.[http://www.dghindia.org/22.aspx Pranhita-Godavari Basin Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, Govt. of India]

The Late Permian aged Kundaram Formation has provided a terrestrial vertebrate fauna. The Late Triassic and the Early Jurassic strata in the basin host dinosaur fossils.{{Cite journal|author1=Fernando E. Novas |author2=Martin D. Ezcurra |author3=Sankar Chatterjee |author4=T. S. Kutty |year=2011 |title=New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=101 |issue=3-4 |pages=333–349 |doi=10.1017/S1755691011020093}}{{cite journal |last=Kutty |first=T.S. |author2=Chatterjee, S. |author3=Galton, P.M. |author4= Upchurch, P. |year=2007 |title=Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Jurassic of India: their anatomy and relationships |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=81 |issue=6 |pages=1552–1574 |doi=10.1666/04-074.1 |url=http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/81/6/1218}} The Pranhita–Godavari Basin contains four Triassic–Jurassic formations, namely Lower Maleri, Upper Maleri, Lower Dharmaram and Upper Dharmaram.{{cite book |author=Langer, M. C. |year=2004 |chapter=Basal Saurischia |editor=Weishampel, D. B. |editor2=Dodson, P. |editor3=Osmólska, H. |title=The Dinosauria |publisher=Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press |location=Bloomington and Indianapolis |pages=25–46 }}