Kachchh Jr 19: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
1 individual
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
Gastropoda - Nododelphinulidae
Nododelphinula sp. Cossmann 1916
1 individual
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Dicroloma sp. Gabb 1868
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
1 individual
recombined as Leda lacryma
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma wynnei
23 individuals
Palaeonucula stoliczkai
2 individuals
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
14 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus glendayi
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
11 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) lirata (Sowerby 1818)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella extensa
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: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 sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: finesandy silt (fossils from here) with thin intercalations of finesandy intrasparite
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:63060
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-04 01:16:54 Last modified:2006-08-04 04:16:54
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-08-04 01:16:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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