Kachchh Jr 50: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
1 individual
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
19 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
3 individuals
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Ctenostreon proboscideum (Sowerby 1820)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula peregrina
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
23 individuals
bored (10), encr. by Tetraserp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854
1 individual
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera madagascariensis Newton 1889
125 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina sp. Fischer 1887
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Orthotrigonia) sp. Crickmay 1930
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:fine,ferruginous,shelly/skeletal lithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine sandy siltstone, ferruginous shell-rich, debris (a)
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:67604
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-27 04:52:45 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:09:21
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-11-27 04:52:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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