Kachchh 940123-2 (Jurassic of India)

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

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone

• shelly silt, 7 cm thick shell bed (= reworked background association)

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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 68093: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Manja Hethke on 03.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia sp. Swainson 1840 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
"Actaeonina (Striactaeonina) sp." = Acteonina
"Actaeonina (Striactaeonina) sp." = Acteonina d'Orbigny 1850 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Spinigera sp. d'Orbigny 1852 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia waltoni Lycett 1863 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Eonavicula) bisulcata Kanjilal 1980 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima sp. Vokes 1945 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia (Trigonia) sp. Bruguiere 1789 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Praesaccella juriana pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae