Kachchh 990110-3: Bajocian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula lyrata (Sowerby 1840)
48 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon baroni
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) grandidieri
4 individuals
Protocardia (Protocardia) kachchhensis
25 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia (Tancredia) vishnui
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia waltoni (Lycett 1863)
42 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis socialis Morris and Lycett 1853
10 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.1° South, 33.4° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bajocian
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 168.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Khadir
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,shelly/skeletal unlithified muddy,sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shelly, fine-sandy, marly 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:68276
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-13 05:47:22 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:19:53
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-13 05:47:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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