Habo Dome, Bhuj, Kachchh, India: Callovian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
dominant category
End reef builders
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
rare category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
rare category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
rare category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Globularia sp. Swainson 1840
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.3° North, 70.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.6° South, 45.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Callovian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
*Period:Middle Jurassic
Key time interval: Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chari
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Lithology description: Coral heads in sandstone sequence.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 526
Database number:24047
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Collections that are a subset of this one:46390
Created:2002-07-29 09:08:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-29 09:08:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6805. F. T. Fürsich, D. K. Pandey, W. Oschmann, A.K. Jaitly, and I.B. Singh. 1994. Ecology and adaptive strategies of corals in unfavourable environments: Examples from the Middle Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, western India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 194(2-3):269-303 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]