Kachchh Jr 60a: Late/Upper Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Cycloserpula sp. Parsch 1956
3 individuals
Tetraserpula sp. Parsch 1956
1 individual
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Dorsoserpula sp. Parsch 1956
6 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris ingluviosa (Kitchin 1900)
1 individual
Kutchithyris hypsogonia (Kitchin 1900)
38 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949
5 individuals
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
6 individuals
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
14 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
27 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
4 individuals
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
1 individual
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
2 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: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:bioturbation lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: marly, silty fine-grained sandstone, highly bioturbated
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:61878
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-06 05:17:48 Last modified:2006-07-06 08:17:48
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-07-06 05:17:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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