Keera Dome, bed 2, Kutch (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.6° N, 69.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 32.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Macrocephalites formosus ammonoid zone, Chari Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Late early Callovian age. From the Golden Oolite.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Halder and S. Bardhan. 1996. The fleeting genus Cymatonautilus (Nautiloidea): new record from the Jurassic Chari Formation, Kutch, India. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1007-1010 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167388: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Cymatoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Sivajiceras paramorphum Waagen 1875 ammonite