Maldeota, Mussoorie Hills, lower Tal Formation (Cambrian of India)

Where: India (30.3° N, 78.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 168.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chert-Phosphorite Member (Tal Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• lowermost member of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite and lithified chert

• banded phosphorite with pyrite, granular phosphorite with pyrite, chert, black shale lenses

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. D. Brasier and P. Singh. 1987. Microfossils and Precambrian-Cambrian boundary stratigraphy at Maldeota, Lesser Himalaya. Geological Magazine 124(4):323-345 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99560: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Barbitositheca ansata
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus cf. isiticus, Hyolithellus aff. insolitus, Hyolithellus vladimirovae
Hyolithellus cf. isiticus Rozanov et al. 1969
Hyolithellus aff. insolitus Voronin et al. 1982
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Protoconodonta
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Protohertzina anabarica, Maldeotaia bandalica
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Maldeotaia bandalica Singh and Shukla 1981
Hyolithomorpha
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Ovalitheca cf. multicostata
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
? Conotheca sp.
? Conotheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Scyphozoa
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Hexangulaconularia cf. formosa
 Coronatae -
Olivooides multisulcatus
Olivooides multisulcatus Qian 1977 jellyfish
Coleoloides typicalis
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Coleoloides aff. typicalis