Also known as LithoUnit E, Krol Fm., Mussoorie Hills, India - Bir Singh and Rai 1983

Where: India (30.7° N, 77.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 159.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Krol E Member (Kauriyala Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• member formed by the entrapment of sediments in blue-green algae in tidal flat areas.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous carbonate

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with dolomite

Primary reference: I. Bir Singh and V. Rai. 1983. Fauna and biogenic structures in Krol-Tal succession (Vendian-Early Cambrian), Lesser Himalaya: their biostratigraphic and palaeoecological significance. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 28:67-90 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10741: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.06.2001

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