Kachchh L 39: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna khadirensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
12 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula wandaensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. (Beyrich 1845)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) inornata Sowerby 1837
1 individual
recombined as Homomya inornata
in life pos.
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Praesaccella juriana
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
1 individual
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.8° South, 33.2° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation unlithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: silty finesand, heavily bioturbated
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Articulated whole bodies:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61556
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-19 06:25:26 Last modified:2006-06-19 09:25:26
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-06-19 06:25:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17728. F.T. Fürsich. 2006. Unpublished data from Kachchh. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]