Kachchh Jr 23: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
3 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula stoliczkai
6 individuals
Palaeonucula cuneiformis (Sowerby 1840)
16 individuals
Nuculoma wynnei
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Dacryomya lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
72 individuals
recombined as Leda lacryma
Mesosaccella indica
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
1 individual
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
1 individual
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: unlithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 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 excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:68554
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-26 06:45:26 Last modified:2016-07-13 15:36:45
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-26 06:45:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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