Kachchh Ja 26: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Dorsoserpula sp. Parsch 1956
2 individuals
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Tetraserpula sp. Parsch 1956
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
3 individuals
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
10 individuals
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) inornata Sowerby 1837
2 individuals
recombined as Homomya inornata
Arcomya sp. Agassiz 1838
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
25 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina subdepressa
4 individuals
encr. by Nanogyra (1)
Opinae indet. Chavan 1952
1 individual
sp. A [originally entered as "Opinae sp."]
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna sowerbiana (Danise et al. 2019)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) obscurus (Sowerby 1818)
1 individual
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
4 individuals
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Spondylopecten (Spondylopecten) palinurus (d'Orbigny 1850)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella siliqua
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria polyodon
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
2 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) alimena
18 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
5 individuals
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
5 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans (Kitchin 1900)
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Kallirhynchia versabilis (Kitchin 1910)
25 individuals
recombined as Burmirhynchia versabilis
Daghanirhynchia sp. Muir-Wood 1935
8 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonelloidella brevicostata
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris hypsogonia (Kitchin 1900)
98 individuals
Kutchithyris ingluviosa (Kitchin 1900)
1 individual
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
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: lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-grained silty sandstone
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:61873
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-06 04:05:01 Last modified:2017-08-04 11:44:33
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-06 04:05:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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