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An early Late Cambrian trilobite faunule from Kashmir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. A. Jell
Affiliation:
Queensland Museum, Gregory Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Queensland, 4006, Australia

Abstract

An early Late Cambrian trilobite faunule of fewer than 20 specimens and including Monkaspis sp. cf. M. serrata Mong, ?Blackwelderia sp. and Cyclolorenzella sp. is recorded from the Trahagam Formation near the village of Trahagam in Hundwara Tehsil, Kashmir, India. The faunule occurs in green shales and provides the first unequivocal Late Cambrian date for sediments in Kashmir; Kashmiri fossil faunas previously ascribed Late Cambrian ages by Reed are now considered Middle Cambrian.

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