Where: India (32.0° N, 77.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 32.5° S, 100.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oryctocephalus salteri trilobite zone, Parahio Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
• Parahio Formation, Oryctocephalus salteri Zone, informal global Stage 5 of the
•Cambrian System.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green shale
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 116463: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 08.09.2011
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Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
? Opsidiscus ? haimantensis Reed 1910 | |
Trilobita | |
"Oryctocephalus salteri" = Oryctocephalites salteri
"Oryctocephalus salteri" = Oryctocephalites salteri Reed 1910 trilobite | |
Hundwarella memor Reed 1910 trilobite | |
Monanocephalus maopoensis Reed 1910 trilobite
Xingrenaspis hoboi Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
Kunmingaspis stracheyi Reed 1910 trilobite
Ziboaspis hostilis Reed 1910 trilobite |