Kachchh L 5: Late/Upper Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Echinoida
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Stolmorhynchia microrhyncha
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
2 individuals
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula (Tetraserpula) quadricarinata
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Ataphridae
Ataphrus labadeyi
1 individual
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Naricopsina aff. umbilicata
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
1 individual
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon erucum
1 individual
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
6 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
1 individual
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Indocorbula sp.
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:Late/Upper Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,ferruginous lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-grained, ferruginous 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:68281
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-13 07:09:40 Last modified:2007-01-13 09:09:43
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-13 07:08:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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