Where: India (32.0° N, 77.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 167.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paramecephalus defossus trilobite zone, Parahio Formation, Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• Parahio Formation, Paramecephalus defossus Zone, informal global Stage 5 of the

•Cambrian System.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonaceous sandstone

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 116467: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 08.09.2011