Habo (=Chari) beds east of Ler, Central Unit, Bed 4, 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

• 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 68662: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2007

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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
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea kanjilali file clam
sp. nov.
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) "sp. B" Roding 1798 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Catinula stoliczkai" = Gryphaea (Catinula)
"Catinula stoliczkai" = Gryphaea (Catinula) oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam