Kachchh Jn 5 (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.5° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 33.2° E)

When: Chari Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, silty sandstone

• silty finesand

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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 67392: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 19.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus laitmairensis de Loriol 1883 mussel
 Pterioida -
"Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum" = Costentolium partitum
"Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum" = Costentolium partitum Sowerby 1840 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Indogrammatodon virgatus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon virgatus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella echinata Smith 1819 scallop
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica pointed nut clam
Praesaccella juriana pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884 belemnite
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
fragment
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail