Kachchh Ja 10a: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
16 individuals
recombined as Leda lacryma
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma wynnei
36 individuals
Palaeonucula stoliczkai
3 individuals
Palaeonucula agrawali
2 individuals
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
27 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) lirata (Sowerby 1818)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia viceliacensis d'Orbigny 1850
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis striata (d'Orbigny 1822)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Unicardium aceste
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella extensa
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Orthotrigonia) hispida (Kitchin 1900)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Laevitrigoniidae
Frenguelliella kheraensis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus glendayi
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 individuals
Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) obscurus (Sowerby 1818)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
1 individual
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
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: unlithified silty marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: finesandy pelsparite intercalations in bioclastic finesandy silty marl (fossils from marly facies)
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:63059
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-04 00:46:35 Last modified:2006-08-04 03:46:35
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-08-04 00:46:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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