Kachchh Basin, Kaladongar (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.9° N, 69.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 33.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Babia Cliff Sandstone Member (Kaladongar Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: paralic; calcareous sandstone

• brackish, brachyhaline or even mesohaline water

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Primary reference: D. K. Pandey, B. Lathuiliere, F. T. Fürsich and S. Kuldeep. 2002. The oldest Jurassic cyathophorid coral (Scleractinia) from siliciclastic environments of the Kachchh Basin, western India. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 76(2):347-356 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87246: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 12.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cyathophora bourgueti Defrance 1826 stony coral