Kachchh F 5 (Jurassic of India)

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

When: Chari Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, argillaceous, sandy siltstone

• argill., finesandy silt with some shell hash and thin pavements

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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 68553: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Manja Hethke on 26.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Praesaccella juriana pointed nut clam
Praesaccella calloviensis pointed nut clam
Mesosaccella indica pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria cf. pygmaea pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster
forming thin pavements
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pterioida -
"Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum" = Costentolium partitum
"Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum" = Costentolium partitum Sowerby 1840 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Quadrinervus sp. Cossmann 1904 snail
Dicroloma sp. Gabb 1868 snail