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.