Zanskar: Kuzam La Fm (Cambrian of India)

Where: Jammu, India (33.1° N, 77.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 166.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Member (Kunzam La Formation), St Davids (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Kumar. 1998. Record of Well Preserved Trilobites from the Cambrian of Zanskar. Journal of the Geological Society of India 51(5):671-678 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46472: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 13.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Yuchsienszella sp.
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Lorenzellidae
Lorenzella sp.
Lorenzella sp. Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Lyriaspis spitiensis, Lyriaspis sp., Ptychoparia consocialis, Ptychoparia pervulgata, Ptychoparia sp.
Lyriaspis sp. Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
Ptychoparia sp. Corda 1847 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Elrathia cf. chuwansis
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
"Hundwarella transversa" = Hundwarella, "Hundwarella cf. convexa" = Hundwarella, "Hundwarella personata" = Hundwarella, "Hundwarella sp." = Hundwarella, "Anomocaraspis hundwarense" = Hundwarella, Eymekops hermias
"Hundwarella transversa" = Hundwarella trilobite
"Hundwarella cf. convexa" = Hundwarella trilobite
"Hundwarella personata" = Hundwarella trilobite
"Hundwarella sp." = Hundwarella Reed 1934 trilobite
"Anomocaraspis hundwarense" = Hundwarella trilobite
Eymekops hermias trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Anomocare sp.
Anomocare sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocarellidae
Anomocarella resseri
 Olenida - Olenidae
Lisania sp.
Lisania sp. Walcott 1911 trilobite
 Lichida - Damesellidae
Damesella sp.
Damesella sp. Walcott 1905 trilobite