Kachchh F 5: Late/Upper Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802
1 individual
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula (Tetraserpula) sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella indica
1 individual
Praesaccella juriana
15 individuals
Praesaccella calloviensis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula menkii
7 individuals
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria cf. pygmaea
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia (Cultriopsis) aff. dundriensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
113 individuals
forming thin pavements
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Acesta (Acesta) jumaraensis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) jurianus
5 individuals
Indogrammatodon virgatus
2 individuals
spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) partitum (Sowerby 1840)
21 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella pisiformis
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya intersectans
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
7 individuals
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Dicroloma sp. Gabb 1868
1 individual
Quadrinervus sp. Cossmann 1904
2 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
4 individuals
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:164.70000 - 161.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified argillaceous,sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: argill., finesandy silt with some shell hash and thin pavements
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:68553
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-26 06:27:48 Last modified:2007-01-26 08:27:48
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-26 06:27:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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