Kachchh Jr 60b: Late/Upper Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia frustriformis Gregory 1900
59 individuals
life pos. (90)
Bivalvia
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
2 individuals
life pos. (2) [originally entered as "Heterodonta sp."]
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) lirata (Sowerby 1818)
5 individuals
life pos. (4)
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
4 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Kolymiidae
Parainoceramus nitescens
4 individuals
synonym of Kolymia
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Stegoconcha gmuelleri (Krenkel 1910)
11 individuals
life pos. (3)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella siliqua
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
35 individuals
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
16 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon erucum
7 individuals
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
encr. by serp., oyster (3)
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Eopecten velatus (Goldfuss 1833)
2 individuals
Spondylopecten (Spondylopecten) palinurus (d'Orbigny 1850)
14 individuals
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
27 individuals
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
19 individuals
e.g. Hubertoceras [originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."]
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris hypsogonia (Kitchin 1900)
95 individuals
nests, encr. (1) Dorsoserp.
Kutchithyris ingluviosa (Kitchin 1900)
6 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Kallirhynchia versabilis (Kitchin 1910)
31 individuals
recombined as Burmirhynchia versabilis
Kallirhynchia cf. fornix (Kitchin 1900)
1 individual
encr. (1) Nanogyra
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Tetraserpula sp. Parsch 1956
2 individuals
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Dorsoserpula sp. Parsch 1956
171 individuals
sp. A, forming knots, free-living
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:Late/Upper Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-grained 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:61876
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-06 04:53:29 Last modified:2006-07-06 07:53:29
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-06 04:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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