Zanskar, Purni 3 section - PI21 (Cambrian of India)

Where: India (33.3° N, 77.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 166.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sudanomocarina sinindica trilobite zone, Parahio Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Parahio Formation, Sudanomocarina sinindica Zone, informal global Stage 5 of the Cambrian System

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green siltstone

• green siltstone/shale

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 114669: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 18.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Peronopsis acadica" = Acadagnostus acadica
"Peronopsis acadica" = Acadagnostus acadica Hartt 1868
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Sudanomocarina sinindica, ? Iranoleesia butes
Sudanomocarina sinindica Peng et al. 2009 trilobite
? Iranoleesia butes Walcott 1905 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
? Probowmaniella sp.
? Probowmaniella sp. Chang 1963 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Eosoptychoparia sp." = Zhenganites
"Eosoptychoparia sp." = Zhenganites Yin 1978 trilobite