Patcham Formation

The Patcham Formation or Pachchham Formation is a Bathonian geologic formation of Patcham Island, Kutch district, Gujarat, India. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.

Patcham Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian ~
Type	Geological formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Marl
Location
Coordinates	23.5°N 70.5°E / 23.5; 70.5
Approximate paleocoordinates	23.4°S 33.3°E / -23.4; 33.3
Region	Gujarat, Kachchh
Country	India
Extent	Patcham Island
Type section
Named for	Patcham Island
Patcham Formation (India)

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

References

Bibliography

• D. K. Srivastava, D. K. Pandey, A. Alberti and F. T. Fürsich. 2010. Record of Advenaster Hess, 1955 (Asteroidea) from the Bathonian Patcham Formation of Kala Jhar in Habo Dome, Kachchh Basin, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 55(1):65-69
• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21* S. K. Jana and S. S. Das. 2002. A report of a 157.8 m.y.-old dinosaur bone from the Jurassic marine Chari Formation, Kutch, Gujarat and its taphonomic significance. Current Science 82(1):85-88
• D. Mukherjee, S. Bardhan, and D. Ghosh. 2002. Significance of new species of Cryptorhynchia (Brachiopoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Kutch, India. Alcheringa 26:209-231
• D. Mehl and F. T. Fürsich. 1997. Middle Jurassic Porifera from Kachchh, western India. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 71:19-33
• 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