Where: Uttarakhand, India (30.1° N, 78.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 13.5° S, 68.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chert-Phosphorite Member (Tal Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)
• Lower Tal Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and chert
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Kumar, D. K. Bhatt, and B. K. Raina. 1987. Skeletal microfauna of Meishucunian and Qiongzhusian (Precambrian-Cambrian boundary) age from the Ganga Valley, Lesser Himalaya, India. Geological Magazine 124:167-171 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97716: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.08.2010
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Taxonomic list
Hyolitha | |
Turcutheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Tiksitheca korabovi jellyfish | |
Olivooides alveus jellyfish |