Zanskar, Kuru 1 section - KU7 (Cambrian of India)

Where: India (33.2° N, 77.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 166.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lejopyge acantha trilobite zone, Teta Member (Karsha Formation), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Author used new stratigraphy: "Lejopyge acantha zone of the Guzhangian Stage"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray packstone

• light grey packstone

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 114664: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 18.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
Himalisania sudani
Himalisania sudani Jell and Hughes 1997 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Neoanomocarella asiatica
Neoanomocarella asiatica Hsiang 1963 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Parablackwelderia jimaensis, Parablackwelderia ? yangi
Parablackwelderia jimaensis Yang 1974 trilobite
Parablackwelderia ? yangi Peng et al. 2004 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
? Valenagnostus ? imitans