GSC loc. C-080594, Graham Island (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.4° N, 132.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 126.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Graham Island Formation (Yakoun Group), Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Informal Radiolarian Zone 7 (begins with Ovalis and end within Laeviuscula Ammonite Zone); meters indicate distance from base of Graham Island Fm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, calcareous shale

• deep water that was commonly euxinic
• lithology of sample: brownish gray limestone (very fine calcarenite)

•lithology of sample/(sequence): dark gray shale and siltstone with rare sandy layers and thin beds of buff weathering concretionary limestone

Size class: microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

• collected by B.E.B. Cameron, 1982; focus on radiolarians

Primary reference: E.S. Carter, B.E.B. Cameron, and P.L. Smith. 1988. Lower and Middle Jurassic radiolarian biostratigraphy and systematic paleontology, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 386:1-109 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71124: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 19.04.2007, edited by Adam Kocsis

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Taxonomic list

• rare: 1-2 specimens; common: 3-6 specimens; abundant: >6 specimens
Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Perispyridium "sp. B" Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Nassellaria indet. Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis Yao 1979 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Parvicingula "sp. B" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Parvicingula "sp. C" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Parvicingula "sp. D" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Parvicingula "sp. F" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Parvicingula aff. media Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Parvicingula matura Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
"Parvicingula ex gr. boesii" = Tethysetta boesii Parona 1890 radiolarian
"Parvicingula aculeata" = Praeparvicingula aculeata Carter et al. 1988 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
? Hsuum "sp. C" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Hsuum aff. belliatulum Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Hsuum cf. mirabundum Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
"Drulanta edenshawi" = Parahsuum edenshawi Carter 1988 radiolarian
questionable occurence
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Mita "sp. A" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiellidae
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Stichocapsa cf. convexa Yao 1979 radiolarian
Stichocapsa aff. japonica Yao 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiformella incognita Blome 1984 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Pseudocrucella sanfilippoae Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Higumastra lupheri Yeh 1987 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Emiluviidae
Emiluvia acantha radiolarian
? Emiluvia antigua radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella "sp. F" Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
? Paronaella denudata RĂ¼st 1898 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Trillus seidersi radiolarian
Trillus elkhornensis Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian