Kachchh 990110-2: Bajocian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
42 individuals
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Osteomya dilata (Phillips 1829)
2 individuals
original and current combination Mya dilata
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula lyrata (Sowerby 1840)
185 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon baroni
27 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pronoella (Pronoella) cuneiformis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) grandidieri
17 individuals
Protocardia (Protocardia) kachchhensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia (Tancredia) gibbosa
23 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
5 individuals
recombined as Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia waltoni (Lycett 1863)
15 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis socialis Morris and Lycett 1853
3 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: unlithified muddy,calcareous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 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:68277
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-13 05:59:29 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:20:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-13 05:59:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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