Redlichid Fauna from Kashmir: Caerfai, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
? Neobolus sp. Waagen 1885
Botsfordia granulata
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia noetlingi
Redlichia cf. knjazevi
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Redlichinidae
Tungusella obesa
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Jammu and Kashmir County:Kashmir
Coordinates: 34.5° North, 74.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.7° South, 165.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 1-3
Key time interval:Caerfai
Age range of interval:538.80000 - 509.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lolab
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: upper middle part of the Lower Cambrian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,green lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: drab coloured greenish shale which is occasionally ferruginous
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:46443
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-01-13 09:19:23 Last modified:2024-05-15 11:54:54
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-13 09:19:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12380. 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]