Kachchh L 19: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
4 individuals
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullospira sp. Harris 1897
3 individuals
spelled with current rank as Ampullina (Ampullospira)
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
7 individuals
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
1 individual
recombined as Leda lacryma
Praesaccella juriana
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula sp.
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Laevitrigoniidae
Frenguelliella cf. tealei (Cox 1937)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma inequivalve (Sowerby 1819)
1 individual
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
20 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria cf. pygmaea
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
6 individuals
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:fine unlithified argillaceous,sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-sandy, 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:67558
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-23 08:38:23 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:05:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-11-23 08:38:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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