Kachchh H 32: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
12 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
partly only 5-7 mm
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
82 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula wandaensis
2 individuals
3 mm
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
2 individuals
Praesaccella juriana
3 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
1 individual
Gastropoda - Acteoninidae
Actaeonina (Striactaeonina) sp. (d'Orbigny 1850)
1 individual
original and current combination Acteonina
see common names

Geography
Country:India County:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.5° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.8° South, 33.2° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine unlithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine sandy silt with thin ripple-bedded fine sand intercalations
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:68393
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-19 06:43:37 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:23:43
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-19 06:43:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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