Kachchh K 6: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
2 individuals
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
10 individuals
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Orthotrigonia) gracilis (Kitchin 1900)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
40 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
4 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
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: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:ooidal lithified silty wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fe-oolitic silty micrite
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:61823
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:F. Fursich Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-03 07:08:40 Last modified:2006-07-03 10:17:08
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-03 07:08:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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