Kachchh Ja 17c: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris aurata (Kitchin 1900)
1 individual
synonym of Kutchithyris propinqua
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula (Dorsoserpula) sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus glendayi
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
3 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
2 individuals
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) alimena
2 individuals
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
5 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 individuals
small
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
23 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella extensa
6 individuals
Pressastarte sp. Zakharov 1970
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera madagascariensis Newton 1889
8 individuals
encr. serp. (2), oyst. (4)
Sphaeriola crassicostata d'Orbigny 1850
1 individual
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis striata (d'Orbigny 1822)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia viceliacensis d'Orbigny 1850
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) lirata (Sowerby 1818)
2 individuals
Agrawalimya pseudosulcata Singh et al. 1982
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia (Trigonia) kheraensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
? Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Orthotrigonia) gracilis (Kitchin 1900)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Praesaccella juriana
1 individual
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
3 individuals
recombined as Leda lacryma
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Rollieria cf. meriani
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma wynnei
7 individuals
Palaeonucula stoliczkai
3 individuals
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
21 individuals
Gastropoda - Ataphridae
Ataphrus actaeus
6 individuals
Gastropoda - Nododelphinulidae
Metriomphalus (Metriacanthus) lyelli
1 individual
Nododelphinula sp. Cossmann 1916
10 individuals
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:Early/Lower Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified silty marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: bioclastic silty marl
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:61793
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:F. Fursich Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-01 07:10:32 Last modified:2006-07-03 09:09:05
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-01 07:10:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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