Where: Gujarat, India (23.8° N, 70.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 33.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bambhanka Member (Gadhada Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• Reworked ammonites of Lower and Middle Oxfordian
• 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 163874: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Peltoceratoides (Peltoceratoides) eugeniforme Arkell 1944 ammonite | |
Epimayaites "sp. A" Spath 1928 ammonite |