Kachchh Ja 17c (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.5° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 33.1° E)

When: Chari Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, silty marl

• bioclastic silty marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F.T. Fürsich. 2006. Unpublished data from Kachchh. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61793: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 01.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Kutchithyris aurata" = Kutchithyris propinqua
"Kutchithyris aurata" = Kutchithyris propinqua Kitchin 1900
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Dacryomya lacryma" = Leda lacryma, Praesaccella juriana
"Dacryomya lacryma" = Leda lacryma Sowerby 1824 pointed nut clam
Praesaccella juriana pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
small
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Indogrammatodon virgatus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon virgatus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) clam
 Pterioida -
"Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum" = Costentolium partitum
"Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum" = Costentolium partitum Sowerby 1840 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Pressastarte sp. Zakharov 1970 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Agrawalimya pseudosulcata Singh et al. 1982 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia viceliacensis d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis striata d'Orbigny 1822 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera madagascariensis Newton 1889 clam
encr. serp. (2), oyst. (4)
Sphaeriola crassicostata d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
? Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Nododelphinulidae
 Trochoidea - Ataphridae