Thango: Cambrian (Cambrian of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 167.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: St Davids (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; black, green shale

• thin-bedded shale, greenish-black in colour

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. K. Shah and S. Paul. 1987. Oryctocephalid fauna from the Cambrian of Spiti. Journal of the Geological Society of India 30(3):187-193 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46501: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
"Oryctocephalus salteri" = Oryctocephalites salteri, Oryctocephalites cf. sulcatus, "Oryctocephalus opiki" = Oryctocephalites opiki
"Oryctocephalus salteri" = Oryctocephalites salteri Reed 1910 trilobite
Oryctocephalites cf. sulcatus Shergold 1969 trilobite
"Oryctocephalus opiki" = Oryctocephalites opiki Shergold 1969 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Solenopleura sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetia sp. Walcott 1916