Parahio, Hayden section - PO21 (Cambrian of India)

Where: India (32.0° N, 77.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 167.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paramecephalus defossus trilobite zone, Parahio Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Parahio Formation, Paramecephalus defossus Zone, informal global Stage 5 of the

•Cambrian System.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: micaceous, gray, silty limestone

• silty dark grey miscaceous limestone

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 116543: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 08.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Douposiella himalaica, Gunnia smithi n. sp., Kunmingaspis stracheyi, Paramecephalus defossus
Douposiella himalaica Reed 1910 trilobite
Gunnia smithi n. sp. Peng et al. 2009 trilobite
Kunmingaspis stracheyi Reed 1910 trilobite
Paramecephalus defossus Reed 1910 trilobite