Bela Island, Kutch: Prorokia and assc. Fauna (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.9° N, 70.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 33.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bela Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Bela Bed No. 20 (Lower Callovian)

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal, yellow, sandy limestone and shale

• yellow sandy limestone with bands of golden oolite and interbeds of shales

Primary reference: S. K. Agrawal and J.N. Rai. 1978. On a new species of Prorokia Bohm from the Jurassic of Kutch (Gujarat, India). Journal of The Geological Society of India 19(8):373-375 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46397: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 12.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
Macrocephalites sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite