Kachchh F8: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Crustacea indet. Brünnich 1772
1 individual
invalid subgroup of Pancrustacea
fragment [originally entered as "Crustacea sp."]
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
1 individual
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
1 individual
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
5 individuals
Praesaccella juriana
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
6 individuals
Nuculoma wynnei
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
36 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
2 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia (Cultriopsis) aff. dundriensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula wandaensis
1 individual
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis fibrosa Laube 1867
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
7 individuals
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Eonavicula) bisulcata Kanjilal 1980
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
4 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratulidae indet. Gray 1840
1 individual
originally entered as "Terebratulidae sp."
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Tetraserpula sp. Parsch 1956
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.8° South, 33.2° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified argillaceous,sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: finesandy argillaceous silt
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Articulated whole bodies:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61530
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-16 05:00:36 Last modified:2017-08-04 11:43:08
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-06-16 05:00:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17728. F.T. Fürsich. 2006. Unpublished data from Kachchh. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]