Kachchh Ku 1: Bathonian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula lyrata (Sowerby 1840)
50 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon baroni
19 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pseudotrapezium ventricosum Newton 1895
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) grandidieri
18 individuals
Protocardia (Protocardia) lycetti
1 individual
Protocardia (Protocardia) keerae
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Mytiloperna patchamensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia waltoni (Lycett 1863)
26 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.4° South, 33.3° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Goradongar
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified sandy,calcareous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine sandy siltstone, calcareous
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:67668
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-12-03 08:44:53 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:12:38
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-12-03 08:44:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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