Maldeota, Mussoorie Hills, lower Tal Formation: Nemakit-Daldynian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Barbitositheca ansata
Spirellus shankeri
Hyolithomorpha
Ovalitheca cf. multicostata
Orthothecida - Circothecidae
? Conotheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Protoconodonta
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Maldeotaia bandalica Singh and Shukla 1981
Scyphozoa
Hexangulaconularia cf. formosa
Scyphozoa - Coronatae
Olivooides multisulcatus Qian 1977
unclassified
Coleoloides aff. typicalis Walcott 1890
Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus cf. isiticus Rozanov et al. 1969
Hyolithellus aff. insolitus Voronin et al. 1982
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
see common names

Geography
Country:India
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 78.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.1° South, 168.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Terreneuvian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 1-2
Key time interval:Nemakit-Daldynian
Age range of interval:538.80000 - 525.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tal Member:Chert-Phosphorite
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lowermost member of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified phosphorite
Secondary lithology: lithified chert
Lithology description: banded phosphorite with pyrite, granular phosphorite with pyrite, chert, black shale lenses
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:99560
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-16 00:33:01 Last modified:2010-11-15 07:33:01
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-16 00:33:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34232. M. D. Brasier and P. Singh. 1987. Microfossils and Precambrian-Cambrian boundary stratigraphy at Maldeota, Lesser Himalaya. Geological Magazine 124(4):323-345 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]