S10-8-88-CNA-KPB-7 Kennecott Point, Graham Island (Jurassic to of Canada)

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 to Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• ?Lower to Middle Hettangian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 3 (5 cm diameter) limestone nodules in siltstones-minor shale

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 94398: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. C" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium tanuense Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Thurstonia gibsoni Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Thurstonia minutaglobus Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis elizabethae Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Bipedis hannai Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum columbiaense Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
"Atalanta epaphrodita" = Atalantria epaphrodita Cordey and Carter 1996 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Relanus reefensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Pseudoeucyrtis fullerensis Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
Protokatroma aquila Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Praehexasaturnalis tetraradiatus Kozur and Mostler 1990 radiolarian
Praehexasaturnalis poultoni Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Tozerium nascens Carter et al. 1998 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian