Kachchh Jr 65: Late/Upper Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Cycloserpula sp. Parsch 1956
1 individual
Tetraserpula sp. Parsch 1956
14 individuals
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
37 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
3 individuals
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella extensa
12 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
22 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
2 individuals
Praesaccella juriana
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula menkii
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
2 individuals
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
Gastropoda - Cryptaulacidae
Cryptaulax sp.
7 individuals
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullospira (Pictavia) cf. lorierei
4 individuals
spelled with current rank as Ampullina (Ampullospira)
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: unlithified argillaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: argillaceous silt
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:61667
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:F. Fursich Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-06-22 06:57:50 Last modified:2006-07-03 08:33:15
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-06-22 06:57:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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