Kachchh J 49: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
8 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
1 individual
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
13 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
13 individuals
Praesaccella juriana
20 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula menkii
1 individual
Palaeonucula stoliczkai
7 individuals
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
3 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
5 individuals
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902
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: lithified silty lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: concretionary silty micrite
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion,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:67399
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-19 08:04:29 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:04:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-11-19 08:04:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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