Kachchh 940106/2: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina subdepressa
3 individuals
Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana (Holdhaus 1913)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
35 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma inequivalve (Sowerby 1819)
3 individuals
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia (Cultriopsis) aff. dundriensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Stegoconcha gmuelleri (Krenkel 1910)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
1 individual
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
4 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Hecticoceras sp. Bonarelli 1893
1 individual
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
3 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris propinqua (Kitchin 1900)
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.8° South, 33.2° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval: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 sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: silty finesand
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:67393
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-19 06:10:00 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:04:26
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-11-19 06:10:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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