ammonites
Zanskar, Kuru 2 section - KU1 (Cambrian of India)

Where: India (33.2° N, 77.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 166.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proagnostus bulbus trilobite zone, Surichun Member (Kurgiakh Formation), Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• Author used new stratigraphy: "Proagnostus bulbus zone of the Guzhangian Stage near the top of Series 3, dated about 501 Ma."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• fissile dark grey shale (slate)

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. 83(sp71):1-95 [W. Kiessling/M. Domansky] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113771: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 05.08.2011