Gangapur Formation

The Gangapur Formation was laid down sometime in the Early Cretaceous due to renewed rift activity.^[3] The rocks of the formation are composed of coarse ferruginous sandstone interrupted with pebble bands succeeded by an alternating sequence of sandstones and mudstones or silty mudstone. Both the Gangapur Formation and the Chikiala Formation overlie the Kota formation however their exact relationships are uncertain. This uncertainty is partly due to the lack of fossils from the Chikiala Formation. It is possible that the Gangapur Formation is older than the Chikiala Formation^[4][5] or that they are both of the same age.^[6][7][8]

Plant megafossils are common in the Gangapur Formation, dominated by the Coniferales.^{[8][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}