Devonian Conodonts from Kashmir
Abstract
THE increasing use of conodonts in studies of Palaeozoic stratigraphy in Europe and North America has recently received added impetus by the discovery of faunas in other continents where broadly similar faunas have been described from strata of similar ages. So far, however, there has been only one published record of conodonts from the Indian subcontinent1. A well preserved fauna of some 1,200 individual conodonts has recently been extracted from a sample of siliceous limestone, collected from a locality near Lutherwan, Kashmir (33° 6' 00'' N., 75° 35' 00'' E.). The insoluble residue also yielded many fragments of bony material and numerous fish teeth. The strata yielding conodonts lie just below the Muth Quartzite which has been assigned a Middle Devonian age on the basis of fossils collected from a locality 1 mile north of Naubug (33° 44' 30'' N., 75° 23' 30'' E.), Anantnag Distt, Kashmir.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1967
- DOI:
- 10.1038/216468a0
- Bibcode:
- 1967Natur.216..468G