Jara Dome, 28 m below Athleta sandstone (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.7° N, 69.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.6° S, 45.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Reineckeia anceps ammonoid zone, Middle Callovian (165.3 - 161.5 Ma)

• 28 m below the Athleta sandstone, Kleidos subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gypsiferous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Invertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Department of Geology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

Primary reference: S. Jain. 2017. Occurrences, age and paleobiogeography of rare genera Phlycticeras and Pachyerymnoceras from South Tethys. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 283:119-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184592: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Strigoceratidae
Phlycticeras polygonium Zieten 1831 ammonite
var. polygonium