S1-9-89-CNA-SKUD-38 Kunga Island (Jurassic to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 131.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 126.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group), Middle Hettangian to Middle Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified siltstone

• limy nodule, 3 cm x 10 cm, in hard, thinly-bedded siltstones

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: E. S. Carter, P. A. Whalen, and J. Guex. 1998. Biochronology and paleontology of Lower Jurassic (Hettangian and Sinemurian) radiolarians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (496)1-162 [A. Miller/K. Layou/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94287: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Heptacladidae
"Pseudoheptacladus "sp. A"" = Parentactinosphaera
"Pseudoheptacladus "sp. A"" = Parentactinosphaera Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Tozerium nascens Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Charlottea weedensis Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Pseudoeucyrtis fullerensis Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis elizabethae Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus hecatensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. A" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
Spumellaria "indet. C" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium browni Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Pantanellium tanuense Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella ravenensis Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Thurstonia minutaglobus Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Udalia primaeva Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian