Kantekote: Bed 5 (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.5° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 33.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Washtawa Formation, Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; red sandstone

• 11 m, marron to brick-red, medium-grained, nodular sandstone highly fossiliferous, exceptionally rich in ammonoids

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Krishna, D.B. Pathak, and B. Pandey. 1998. Development of Oxfordian (Early Upper Jurassic) in the Most Proximally Exposed Part of the Kachchh Basin at Wagad Outside the Kachchh Mainland. Journal of the Geological Society of India 52(5):513-522 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46551: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 19.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Ariesphinctes sp., Beraketites sp.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Epimayaites sp., Mayaites sp.
Epimayaites sp. Spath 1928 ammonite
Mayaites sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Gregoryceras sp.
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp.
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Larcheria sp., Perisphinctes sp., "Dichotomosphinctes sp." = Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes)
Larcheria sp. Tinant 1961 ammonite
Perisphinctes sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite
"Dichotomosphinctes sp." = Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) ammonite