Habo (=Chari) beds east of Ler, Eastern Unit, Bed 11, Kutch (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.2° N, 69.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 32.7° E)

• 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

• 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 68669: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.02.2007

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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
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864 clam