Ganga River (Cambrian of India)

Where: Uttarakhand, India (30.1° N, 78.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 169.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chert-Phosphorite Member (Tal Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• Lower Tal Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and chert

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Kumar, D. K. Bhatt, and B. K. Raina. 1987. Skeletal microfauna of Meishucunian and Qiongzhusian (Precambrian-Cambrian boundary) age from the Ganga Valley, Lesser Himalaya, India. Geological Magazine 124:167-171 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97716: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
 Coronatae -
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida -
Turcutheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958