Where: Gujarat, India (23.4° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 32.6° 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
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: GeoZentrum Nordbayern of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, but are planned to be stored ultimately at the Department of Geology of the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
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 163873: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Peltoceratoides (Parawedekindia) cf. arduennensis d'Orbigny 1848 ammonite | |
Epimayaites lemoini Spath 1924 ammonite |