Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.9° N, 133.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 128.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• lowermost Hettangian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified, coarse-grained sandstone
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 94388: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Amuria impensa Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian | |
Droltus hecatensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian | |
Canoptum merum Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian | |
Charlottea sp. Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Tozerium nascens Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian | |
Udalia sp. Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Udalia primaeva Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian | |
Paronaella ravenensis Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Thurstonia sp. Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian | |
Tipperella kennecottensis Longridge et al. 2007 radiolarian |