Jara Dome, Dhosa conglomerate bed (concretionary slab) (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.7° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 32.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cardioceras cordatum ammonoid zone, Dhosa Conglomerate Member (Chari Formation), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Silt with ferruginous ooids

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 182038: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.10.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Epimayaites "sp. A" Spath 1928 ammonite
Epimayaites smeei Spath 1928 ammonite