Kachchh K 27a: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
Pentacrinites sp. Blumenbach 1804
1 individual
Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinites sp. Meyer in Agassiz 1836
1 individual
synonym of Isocrinus
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia (Trigonia) elongata
12 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon marshi (Sowerby 1814)
19 individuals
bored (6), encr. (7)
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
19 individuals
bored (5), encr. (3)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
4 individuals
encr. (3)
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) alimena
55 individuals
bored (1)
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
54 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
encr. (1), bored (3)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon proboscideum (Sowerby 1820)
9 individuals
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
25 individuals
recombined as Chlamys textoria
encr. (2)
Spondylopecten cardinatus
1 individual
Eopecten velatus (Goldfuss 1833)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus laitmairensis (de Loriol 1883)
7 individuals
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
3 individuals
bored (1)
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:ferruginous,shelly/skeletal lithified calcareous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: ferruginous, calcareous siltstone, shelly
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:68596
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:M. Hethke
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-29 08:27:58 Last modified:2017-08-04 12:26:27
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-29 08:27:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data from Kachchh.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