Kachchh J 45a: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
6 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Indogrammatodon virgatus
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
4 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
16 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
17 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) sp. Beyrich 1845
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
1 individual
Praesaccella juriana
23 individuals
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
1 individual
recombined as Leda lacryma
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Rollieria sp. Cossmann 1920
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
7 individuals
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis sp. Grateloup 1832
1 individual
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullospira sp. Harris 1897
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Ampullina (Ampullospira)
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 argillaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: argillaceous silt
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:67400
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-19 08:18:06 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:05:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-11-19 08:18:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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