Where: India (33.1° N, 77.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 166.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Parahio Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
• "from the uppermost Parahio Formation, east of Kurgiakh village" which I interpret as the Drumian stage, but it is not stated explicitly in the text. However, the majority of Parahio formation is in informal stage 5 of Series 3 of Cambrian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. Peng, N. C. Hughes, N. A. Heim, B. K. Sell, X. Zhu, P. M. Myrow, and S. K. Parcha. 2009. Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 83(sp71):1-95 [W. Kiessling/M. Domansky/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114636: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 18.08.2011
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Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Baltagnostus rakuroensis Kobayashi 1935 |