Northeast of Lakhapar, Kutch (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.7° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 33.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Umia Member (Bhuj Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• uppermost part of Umia Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, green limestone

• shallow shelf below fair-weather wave base
• Green oolite band

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Primary reference: S. Shome, S. Bardhan, and S. De. 2005. Record of Tithopeltoceras Arkell (Ammonoidea) from the late Tithonian of Kutch, India: its stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance. Journal of Paleontology 79:619-624 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66780: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Opisthotrigonia retrorsa
Opisthotrigonia retrorsa Kitchin 1903 clam
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Pisotrigonia kitchini n. sp." = Pterotrigonia
"Pisotrigonia kitchini n. sp." = Pterotrigonia clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp.
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Megacucullaea eminens
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella anceps
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp.
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Radulopecten) moondanensis
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Micracanthoceras sp., Tithopeltoceras lakhaparensis n. sp., Aulacosphinctes sp.
Tithopeltoceras lakhaparensis n. sp. Shome et al. 2005 ammonite