Where: Gujarat, India (23.8° N, 68.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 34.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ghuneri Member (Bhuj Formation), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• "Trigonia Bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Rudra and S. Bardhan. 2006. Status of "Trigonia ventricosa" (Bivalvia) from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Kutch, western India: Kitchin's unfinished synthesis. Cretaceous Research 27:611-628 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66781: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pisotrigonia ventricosa" = Pterotrigonia
"Pisotrigonia ventricosa" = Pterotrigonia clam | |
Iotrigonia recurva Kitchin 1903 clam
Iotrigonia vscripta Kitchin 1903 clam |