Kachchh HW 10: Late/Upper Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) lirata (Sowerby 1818)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
15 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna sowerbiana (Danise et al. 2019)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
36 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon jurianus
2 individuals
Indogrammatodon virgatus
6 individuals
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Stegoconcha gmuelleri (Krenkel 1910)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
2 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon marshi (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula wandaensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis fibrosa Laube 1867
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) obscurus (Sowerby 1818)
5 individuals
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
2 individuals
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Metapeltoceras sp.
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Peltoceras (Metapeltoceras)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Hecticoceras sp. Bonarelli 1893
7 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883
1 individual
originally entered as "Terebratulida sp."
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula (Cycloserpula) intestinalis Gmelin 1791
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.1° South, 33.1° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper 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: bioturbated silty finesand
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:61659
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:F. Fursich Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-22 04:59:55 Last modified:2006-06-22 09:14:00
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-06-22 04:59:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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