Parahio, Hayden section - PO26 (Cambrian of India)

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

• dark grey shale, green weathering and siltstone

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
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
"Oryctocephalus salteri" = Oryctocephalites salteri
"Oryctocephalus salteri" = Oryctocephalites salteri Reed 1910 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Hundwarella memor Reed 1910 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Monanocephalus maopoensis Reed 1910 trilobite
Xingrenaspis hoboi Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
Kunmingaspis stracheyi Reed 1910 trilobite
Ziboaspis hostilis Reed 1910 trilobite