Habo (=Chari) beds east of Ler, Central Unit, Bed 1, Kutch (Jurassic to of India)

Where: India (23.2° N, 69.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.9° S, 45.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Habo beds Formation, Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 157.3 Ma)

• the youngest, bed No. 1, is Mebha Oolite and assigned to Callovo-Oxfordian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: focus on ammonoids and bivalves

Primary reference: S. K. Agrawal and R. P. Kachhara. 1979. Habo Beds near Ler (Kutch): Pt. 3 - Biostratigraphy of the beds on the east of Ler. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Part A: Physical Sciences 45(2):129-146 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68647: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The rich collection of megafossils from the east of Ler consists of over 1800 specimens of bivalves and 600 of ammonoids. About 300 individuals of the former and 360 of the latter have been left out due to their bad preservation.
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya alduini Brongniart 1821 clam
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna shuklai pearl oyster
sp. nov.
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Lopha (Actinostreon) marshii" = Actinostreon marshi, "Lopha (Actinostreon) gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Lopha (Actinostreon) marshii" = Actinostreon marshi Sowerby 1814 oyster
"Lopha (Actinostreon) gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha (Actinostreon) sp. Bayle 1878 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, "Catinula alimena" = Gryphaea (Catinula)
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
"Catinula alimena" = Gryphaea (Catinula) oyster
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) agrawali scallop
sp. nov.
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) sp. Meek 1864 scallop
"Oxytoma (Oxytoma) inequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma singhi file clam
sp. nov.
Plagiostoma kackeri file clam
sp. nov.
Plagiostoma laxmani file clam
sp. nov.
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
Ctenostreon proboscideum Sowerby 1820 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop
"Eopecten aubryi" = Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop
Spondylopecten sahnii scallop
sp. nov.
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
Chlamys (Chlamys) rajnathi scallop
sp. nov.
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Megacucullaea sp. Rennie 1936 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca (Eonavicula) chaudharii" = Eonavicula
"Arca (Eonavicula) chaudharii" = Eonavicula clam
sp. nov.
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma agrawali nut clam
sp. nov.
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Dhosaites sp. ammonite
Dhosaites primus Spath 1928 ammonite
"Mayaites (Mayaites) cf. smeei" = Epimayaites smeei Spath 1928 ammonite
Mayaites (Epimayaites) sp. ammonite
juvenile
Mayaites (Mayaites) maya Sowerby 1840 ammonite
Mayaites (Mayaites) aff. maya Sowerby 1840 ammonite
Paryphoceras badiense Spath 1928 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
Collotia sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Alligaticeras polymorphum" = Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) polymorphus Spath 1931 ammonite
Properisphinctes bernensis de Loriol 1898 ammonite
Poculisphinctes sp. ammonite
misspelled as Poculisphintes sp.
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Calliphylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite
Holcophylloceras cf. mediterraneum Neumayr 1871 ammonite
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite