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
•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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Perispyridium "sp. B" Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian | |
Nassellaria indet. Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian | |
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis
"? Tricolocapsa fusiformis" = Japonocapsa fusiformis Yao 1979 radiolarian | |
Parvicingula aff. burnensis, Parvicingula "sp. B", Parvicingula "sp. C", Parvicingula "sp. D", Parvicingula "sp. F", Parvicingula aff. media, Parvicingula matura, "Parvicingula ex gr. boesii" = Tethysetta boesii, "Parvicingula aculeata" = Praeparvicingula aculeata
Parvicingula aff. burnensis radiolarian
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 | |
Tricolocapsa cf. rusti radiolarian | |
? Hsuum "sp. C", Hsuum aff. belliatulum, Hsuum cf. mirabundum, "Drulanta edenshawi" = Parahsuum edenshawi
? Hsuum "sp. C" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Hsuum aff. belliatulum Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Hsuum cf. mirabundum Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian | |
Mita "sp. A" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian | |
Eucyrtidiellum elementarius radiolarian | |
Stichocapsa cf. convexa Yao 1979 radiolarian
Stichocapsa aff. japonica Yao 1979 radiolarian | |
Orbiculiformella incognita Blome 1984 radiolarian | |
Pseudocrucella sanfilippoae Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Higumastra lupheri Yeh 1987 radiolarian | |
Paronaella tlellensis radiolarian
Paronaella "sp. F" Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
? Paronaella denudata RĂ¼st 1898 radiolarian | |
Spongotripus incomptus radiolarian | |
Trillus seidersi radiolarian
Trillus elkhornensis Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian |