Kunga Island Section, Queen Charlotte Islands, 97/3 (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 131.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 126.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globolaxtorum tozeri zone, Sandilands Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• upper Rhaetian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, concretionary limestone

• interbedded light to dark gray sandstone, siltstone, shale, and limestone with abundant calcareous concretions

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric,

Primary reference: E. S. Carter and R. S. Hori. 2005. Global correlation of the radiolarian faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42(5):777-790 [W. Kiessling/M. Riess]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54202: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Martin Riess on 27.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
"Risella sp." = Serilla
"Risella sp." = Serilla Carter 2007 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Pseudohagiastrum giganteum Carter and Hori 2005 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Mesosaturnalis acuminatus Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Globolaxtorum tozeri Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella sp. Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986 radiolarian
Citriduma asteroides Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium sp. Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian