Parahio, Hayden section - PO18 (Cambrian of India)

Where: India (32.0° N, 77.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 167.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kaotaia prachina trilobite zone, Parahio Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Parahio Formation, Kaotaia prachina Zone, informal global Stage 5 of the

•Cambrian System.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray limestone

• light grey sparry limestone

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 116547: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 08.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Bhargavia prakritika
Bhargavia prakritika Peng et al. 2009 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Kaotaia prachina, Xingrenaspis parthiva n. sp.
Kaotaia prachina Peng et al. 2009 trilobite
Xingrenaspis parthiva n. sp. Peng et al. 2009 trilobite