Kachchh Ja 28t (top) (Jurassic of India)

Where: India (23.5° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 33.0° E)

When: Dhosa Oolite Member (Chari Formation), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, ferruginous, argillaceous, silty packstone

• argillaceous, silty Fe-oolitic biomicrite (packstone), bioturbated

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F.T. Fürsich. 2006. Unpublished data from Kachchh. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63535: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 16.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Kutchirhynchia kutchensis" = Kutchirhynchia kutchiensis
"Kutchirhynchia kutchensis" = Kutchirhynchia kutchiensis Kitchin 1900
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883
juveniles
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris sp. Buckman 1917
Kutchithyris euryptycha Kitchin 1900
forming nests
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullospira aff. coxi" = Ampullina (Ampullospira)
"Ampullospira aff. coxi" = Ampullina (Ampullospira) snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon marshi Sowerby 1814 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria" = Chlamys textoria
"Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria" = Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon proboscideum Sowerby 1820 file clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Unicardium sp. d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
originally entered as "Ammonitida sp."
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884 belemnite
originally entered as "Belemnoidea sp."