Kachchh 950109-3: Early/Lower Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania (Oonia) subglobosa
12 individuals
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Naricopsina subcanaliculata
1 individual
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithium (Cosmocerithium) cf. nysti
9 individuals
original and current combination Cosmocerithium
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula basseae
63 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) grandidieri
35 individuals
Protocardia (Protocardia) goradongarensis
74 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
1 individual
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.1° South, 33.1° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Callovian
Age range of interval:164.70000 - 161.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal silty packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: silty packstone, shelly
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:68076
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-02 05:18:28 Last modified:2007-01-02 07:18:28
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-02 05:18:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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