Batagad, Mussoorie–Dhanaulti road, Upper Tal Fm (Cambrian to of India)

Where: Uttarakhand, India (30.5° N, 78.1° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 171.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quartzite Member (Upper Tal Formation), Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• middle to upper part of the Early Cambrian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; red sandstone and shale

• quartz arenite with thinly layered micaceous shale which is sometimes nodular and compact. The trace fossil horizon occurs within an outcrop of 1 m thickness, at the bedding plane of finely laminated siltstone and nodular, compact sandy shale and falls within the unit G of Singh
• purple sandstone and sand/shale intercalations

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: M. Tiwari and S. K. Parcha. 2006. Early Cambrian trace fossils from the Tal Formation of the Mussoorie Syncline, India. Current Science 90(1):113-118 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153700: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

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 Ichnofossils -
Merostomichnites sp., Dimorphichnus sp., Monomorphichnus sp., ? Neonereites sp., Diplichnites "sp. A", Skolithos sp., Planolites sp., Planolites "sp. B"
Merostomichnites sp. Packard 1900
Dimorphichnus sp. Seilacher 1955
Monomorphichnus sp. Crimes 1970
? Neonereites sp. Seilacher 1960
Diplichnites "sp. A" Dawson 1873
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Planolites "sp. B" Nicholson 1873