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Cambrian Trace Fossils from the Spiti Valley, Himachal Himalaya


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1 529, Sector 18B, Chandigarh 160 018, India
2 47, Pandariba, Lucknow 226 001, India
3 Gandhi Nagar, Jammu 180 001, India
     

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Trace fossils Diplichnites spp., ? Dimorphichnus, Monomorphichnus spp., trilobite scratch marks, Gyrochorte, Gordia, ? Astropolithon, ? Scolicia, Planolites, Skolithos are reported from the Kunzam La Formation of the Haimanta Group of the Parahio section, Spiti valley. This fossil assemblage occurs 460m below the Middle Cambrian trilobite zone and 1620 m above Precambrian-Cambrian acritarch zone and may represent late Lower to Early Middle Cambrian age. These occur in sediments laid in a low energy environment.
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O. N. Bhargava
529, Sector 18B, Chandigarh 160 018, India
Gopendra Kumar
47, Pandariba, Lucknow 226 001, India
S. S. Gupta
Gandhi Nagar, Jammu 180 001, India

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Trace fossils Diplichnites spp., ? Dimorphichnus, Monomorphichnus spp., trilobite scratch marks, Gyrochorte, Gordia, ? Astropolithon, ? Scolicia, Planolites, Skolithos are reported from the Kunzam La Formation of the Haimanta Group of the Parahio section, Spiti valley. This fossil assemblage occurs 460m below the Middle Cambrian trilobite zone and 1620 m above Precambrian-Cambrian acritarch zone and may represent late Lower to Early Middle Cambrian age. These occur in sediments laid in a low energy environment.