Editing Deccan Traps (section)

==Fossils==
[[File:Rajasaurus en las traps del decán.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|[[Paleoart]] of the Deccan trap during the Late Cretaceous]]

The Deccan Traps are famous for the beds of fossils that have been found between layers of lava. Particularly well-known species include the frog ''[[Oxyglossus]] pusillus'' (Owen) of the [[Eocene]] of [[India]] and the toothed frog ''[[Indobatrachus]]'', an early lineage of modern frogs, which is now placed in the Australian family [[Myobatrachidae]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Noble |first1= Gladwyn Kingsley |author-link= Gladwyn Kingsley Noble |year= 1930 |title= The Fossil Frogs of the Intertrappean Beds of Bombay, India |journal= American Museum of Natural History |volume= 401 |page= 1930 |hdl= 2246/3061}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://tolweb.org/Myobatrachinae/16946 |title=Myobatrachinae |access-date=19 June 2011 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922052151/http://tolweb.org/Myobatrachinae/16946 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Infratrappean Beds]] (Lameta Formation) and [[Intertrappean Beds]] also contain fossil freshwater [[molluscs]].<ref>Hartman, J.H., Mohabey, D.M., Bingle, M., Scholz, H., Bajpai, S., and Sharma, R., 2006, Initial survivorship of nonmarine molluscan faunas in end-Cretaceous Deccan intertrappean strata, India: Geological Society of America (annual meeting, Philadelphia) Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 143.</ref>