Habo Dome, Bhuj, Kachchh, India (Jurassic of India)

Also known as Reef 526

Where: Kachchh, India (23.3° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 32.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chari Formation, Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• Coral heads in sandstone sequence.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24047: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Amphiastrea piriformis Gregory 1900 stony coral
End reef builders
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, "Catinula sandalina" = Gryphaea (Catinula)
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
"Catinula sandalina" = Gryphaea (Catinula) oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Indogrammatodon virgatus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon virgatus" = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) clam
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia sp. Swainson 1840 snail
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail
 Ichnofossils -