Kachchh K 17: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
1 individual
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
11 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:"cross stratification",ferruginous,ooidal lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: cross-bedded, Fe-oolitic oosparite, grainstone
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:61824
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-03 07:20:16 Last modified:2006-07-03 10:20:16
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-03 07:20:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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