Cheriya bet (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.9° N, 70.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 33.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hadibhadang Shale Member (Khadir Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• probably early to middle Bajocian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gypsiferous, red, argillaceous siltstone and fine-grained, medium sandstone

• "a floodplain with fluvial channels", with some euryhaline intervals
• "variegated to dark red argillaceous silt, some horizons of which are full of diagenetically formed gypsum and with occasional thin intercalations of fine- to medium-grained crossbedded sandstone."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F. Fürsich & D. Pandey in 1999

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: M. Moser, U. B. Mathur, F. T. Fürsich, D. K. Pandey, and N. Mathur. 2006. Oldest camarasauromorph sauropod (Dinosauria) discovered in the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of the Khadir Island, Kachchh, western India. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80(1):34-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61163: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Camarasauromorpha indet.
Camarasauromorpha indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet.
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster