Habo (=Chari) beds east of Ler, Eastern Unit, Bed 7, Kutch (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.2° N, 69.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 32.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Habo beds Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• beds No. 3 to 16 can be grouped into Reineckeia Beds of Callovian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: focus on ammonoids and bivalves

Primary reference: S. K. Agrawal and R. P. Kachhara. 1979. Habo Beds near Ler (Kutch): Pt. 3 - Biostratigraphy of the beds on the east of Ler. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Part A: Physical Sciences 45(2):129-146 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68665: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

• The rich collection of megafossils from the east of Ler consists of over 1800 specimens of bivalves and 600 of ammonoids. About 300 individuals of the former and 360 of the latter have been left out due to their bad preservation.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Obtusicostites obtusicosta Waagen 1875 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus (Modiolus) sp. Lamarck 1799 mussel
Falcimytilus sp. Cox 1937 mussel
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Eopecten aubryi" = Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop
Chlamys (Chlamys) curvivarians Dietrich 1933 scallop
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna blakei pearl oyster
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Tellurimya sp. Cox 1964 clam