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Skeletal microfauna of Meishucunian and Qiongzhusian (Precambrian–Cambrian boundary) age from the Ganga Valley, Lesser Himalaya, India

Correspondence and Notes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Gopendra Kumar ,
D. K. Bhatt  and
B. K. Raina
Gopendra Kumar
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 006, India
D. K. Bhatt
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of India, Lucknow, 226 006, India
B. K. Raina
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of India, Jammu, 180 004, India
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The earliest skeletal microfauna of Precambrian-Cambrian age recovered from the ‘Lower Tal’ sequence (Chert-Phosphorite to Calcareous members) of the Tal Formation, exposed in the Ganga Valley, Lesser Himalaya, Uttar Pradesh, India, has been grouped into three assemblages. In ascending order these are: assemblage I, containing Anabarites trisulcatus Missarzhevsky, Tiksitheca korobovi (Miss.). Circotheca sp., Turcutheca sp., Spirellus columnorus Jiang and Olivooides alveus Qian; assemblage II, yielding Allonia erromenosa Jiang, A. sp. cf. A. erromenosa Jiang, Dimidia simpleca Jiang, D. sp. cf. D. simpleca Jiang and Hyolithellus sp.; and assemblage III, comprising Pelagiella lorenzi Kobayashi, Auriculatespira madianensis Zhou & Xiao and A. andunca He & Pei. The assemblages I and II are correlatable to the Meishucunian Zone I and Zone III respectively, and the assemblage III to the Qiongzhusian Stage of China. Thus the ‘Lower Tal’ sequence is assigned to Precambrian–Cambrian age.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 124 , Issue 2 , March 1987 , pp. 167 - 171
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