Chert Block LA 2, Lubok Antu Melange, Sarawak, Malaysia (Cretaceous to of Malaysia)

Where: Malaysia (1.1° N, 111.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 125.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 125.0 Ma)

• Middle Valanginian to Barremian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone

• chert blocks found as exotic blocks in the Lubok Antu Melange. The chert blocks consist of interbedded radiolarian cherts and siliceous mudstone.The thickness of the individual chert layers ranges from 1 to 10 cm. The cherts are folded and some parts are fractured and sheared.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, hydroflouric,

• The Radiolaria were retrieved from the chert by using hydrofluoric acid following the method of Pessagno and Newport (1972)

Primary reference: B. Jasin. 1996. Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Radiolaria from chert blocks in th Lubok Antu melange, Sarawak, Malaysia. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences 13(1):1-11 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69300: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 24.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

• common (more than 20 specimens); few (11-19 specimens); rare (6-10 specimens); present (l-5 specimens)
Protozoa
 Radiolaria - Ethmosphaeridae
 Nassellaria - Sethocapsidae
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Ristola boesii radiolarian
"Pseudodictyomitra puga" = Wrangellium puga Schaaf 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
"Cyrtocapsa grutterinki" = Syringocapsa grutterinki Tan Sin Hok 1927 radiolarian
Podobursa triacantha Fischli 1916 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Holocryptocanium barbui Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Archaeodictyomitra lacrimula Foreman 1973 radiolarian
"Thanarla conica" = Thanarla brouweri Tan Sin Hok 1927 radiolarian
Thanarla pulchra Squinabol 1904 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
"Eucyrtis tenuis" = Eucyrtidium radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Xitidae
Xitus spicularius Aliev 1961 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae
Pseudodictyomitra sp. Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Stylosphaeridae
"Sphaerostylus lanceola" = Stylosphaera
"Sphaerostylus lanceola" = Stylosphaera radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
"Staurosphaera septemporata" = Cecrops septemporatus
"Staurosphaera septemporata" = Cecrops septemporatus Parona 1890 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pseudoaulophacidae