Kachchh Jr 25: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
1 individual
spine [originally entered as "Echinoidea sp."]
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus laitmairensis (de Loriol 1883)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
3 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia viceliacensis d'Orbigny 1850
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astartidae indet. d'Orbigny 1844
1 individual
originally entered as "Astartidae sp."
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Orthotrigonia) gracilis (Kitchin 1900)
1 individual
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: unlithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-sandy bioclastic 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:61794
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-01 07:39:14 Last modified:2006-07-01 10:39:14
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-01 07:39:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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