Zanskar, Purni 3 section - PI21: Middle Cambrian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Sudanomocarina sinindica Peng et al. 2009
? Iranoleesia butes (Walcott 1905)
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
? Probowmaniella sp. Chang 1963
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Eosoptychoparia sp. Zhang 1963
synonym of Zhenganites
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Peronopsis acadica (Hartt 1868)
recombined as Acadagnostus acadica
see common names

Geography
Country:India
Coordinates: 33.3° North, 77.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.8° South, 166.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:3942 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3-4
Key time interval:Middle Cambrian Trilobite zone: Sudanomocarina sinindica
Age range of interval:509.00000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Parahio
Local section:Purni 3 Local bed:504,04 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Parahio Formation, Sudanomocarina sinindica Zone, informal global Stage 5 of the Cambrian System
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: green siltstone/shale
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:114669
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Domansky
Modifier:M. Domansky Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-18 22:58:17 Last modified:2011-08-18 10:48:32
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-18 22:58:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36858. 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]