Redlichid Fauna from Kashmir (Cambrian of India)

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (34.5° N, 74.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 166.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Caerfai (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• upper middle part of the Lower Cambrian

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, green shale

• drab coloured greenish shale which is occasionally ferruginous

Primary reference: S. K. Shah, B.K. Raina, and M.L. Razdan. 1980. Redlichid Fauna from the Cambrian of Kashmir. Journal of the Geological Society of India 21(10):511-517 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46443: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 13.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
? Neobolus sp., Botsfordia granulata
? Neobolus sp. Waagen 1885
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichinidae
Tungusella obesa
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia noetlingi, Redlichia cf. knjazevi