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Cambrian microfossils from the Tethyan Himalaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2016

Ian R. Gilbert ,
Nigel C. Hughes  and
Paul M. Myrow
Ian R. Gilbert
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA 〈iangilbert81@gmail.com〉, 〈nigel.hughes@ucr.edu〉
Nigel C. Hughes
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA 〈iangilbert81@gmail.com〉, 〈nigel.hughes@ucr.edu〉
Paul M. Myrow
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA 〈pmyrow@ColoradoCollege.edu〉
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Abstract

Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Indian subcontinent is best documented from the Parahio Formation of the Tethyan Himalaya. Recently established trilobite biostratigraphy shows that the formation encompasses the latest part of unnamed Stage 4 and much of unnamed Stage 5. A variety of small shelly fossils have been recovered via acid digestion of carbonate beds and include tetract and pentact hexactinellid sponge spicules, chancelloriid spicules belonging to Chancelloria sp. and a new species, Archiasterella dhiraji, shells of an helcionelloid comparable to Igorella maidipingensis, a meraspid ptychopariid trilobite, the tubular Cupitheca sp., a poorly preserved hyolith, and an assortment of spinose microfossils of uncertain affinity. These newly recovered microfossils are consistent with the trilobite-based lower and middle Cambrian age determination and do not support a late Cambrian age for the top of the Parahio Formation advocated in some recent literature. The microfossils reported herein significantly expand the known diversity of such fossils from Cambrian strata in the Himalayan region, and allow for comparison of this fauna with others from Gondwanaland and elsewhere. Integration with trilobite data indicate that the stratigraphic ranges of many small shelly fossils described in this study are greater than previously recognized.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 10 - 30
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