Jumara Dome, Dhosa Conglomerate Bed (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.7° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 32.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dhosa Conglomerate Member (Chari Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Reworked specimens of Lower and Middle Oxfordian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, ooidal siltstone

• Silt with ferruginous ooids

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.

Primary reference: M. Alberti, D. K. Pandey, and F. T. Fürsich. 2011. Ammonites of the genus Peltoceratoides Spath, 1924 from the Oxfordian of Kachchh, western India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 262:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163871: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Epimayaites transiens Waagen 1875 ammonite
Dhosaites aff. primus Spath 1928 ammonite
Mayaites maya Sowerby 1840 ammonite