Kachchh K 22a: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
1 individual
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) obscurus (Sowerby 1818)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
15 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella extensa
132 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Laevitrigoniidae
Frenguelliella kheraensis
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Orthotrigonia) sp. Crickmay 1930
1 individual
Bivalvia
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma wynnei
42 individuals
Palaeonucula stoliczkai
4 individuals
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
32 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
1 individual
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
18 individuals
recombined as Leda lacryma
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Tetraserpula sp. Parsch 1956
5 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:164.70000 - 161.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified silty packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 3-5 cm silty biomicrite
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:63068
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-04 04:25:57 Last modified:2006-08-04 07:25:57
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-08-04 04:25:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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