Kachchh 990110-4: Bajocian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullinidae indet. Cossmann 1918
1 individual
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873
195 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula lyrata (Sowerby 1840)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon baroni
29 individuals
some in life pos.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia (Tancredia) gibbosa
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) grandidieri
3 individuals
Protocardia (Protocardia) kachchhensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia waltoni (Lycett 1863)
1 individual
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 lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shelly, fine-grained sandstone
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:68280
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-13 06:49:34 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:20:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-13 06:49:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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