This paper displays a relationship between shrinkage cracks and lithofacies occurring in the glauconitic sandstone of the Semri Group, Vindhyan Supergroup, and interprets origin of the shrinkage cracks. The glauconitic sandstone member contains cross- and thin- bedded, and laminated sandstone facies. The spindle-shaped cracks are associated with the thin-bedded sandstone and the polygonal cracks are associated with the laminated sandstone. The cross- and thin-bedded sandstones contain well rounded particles that suggest reworking of the sediments by waves and tides in the shoreface zone. The presence of wave-formed ripples and wavy bedding in the laminated sandstones is an indication of the wave-dominated foreshore environment. The occurrence of glauconite suggests that the glauconitic sandstone deposited during transgression as a condense sequence. In view of the fact that the sandstones are devoid of clay content, it is interpreted that both the spindle-shaped cracks and polygonal cracks developed as a result of compaction during the process of synaeresis and the microbial mat added cohesion to the sediments.