Zanskar, East of Kurgiakh - KH2 (Cambrian of India)

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

• dark grey 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
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Baltagnostus rakuroensis Kobayashi 1935