Habo (=Chari) beds east of Ler, Eastern Unit, Bed 5, Kutch (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.2° N, 69.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.5° S, 45.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Habo beds Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• beds No. 3 to 16 can be grouped into Reineckeia Beds of Callovian age

• 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 68663: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2007

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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
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) curvivarians Dietrich 1933 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga (Lithophaga) fabella Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838 mussel
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Hubertoceras aff. dhosaense" = Obtusicostites
"Hubertoceras aff. dhosaense" = Obtusicostites ammonite