87-CNA-KPA-6; 88-OF-KPA-E Kennecott Point, Graham Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.9° N, 133.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 128.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proparvicingula moniliformis other zone, Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• zone information from Carter and Guex (1999)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 20x25 cm and 4x15 cm micrite nodules in thinly-bedded hard siliceous siltstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: E. Carter. 1993. Biochronology and paleontology of uppermost Triassic (Rhaetian) radiolarians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Memoires de Geologie 11:1-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94701: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium "sp. A" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
Deflandrecyrtium "sp. B" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Laxtorum aff. kulense Blome 1984 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
"Squinabolella "sp. A"" = Nabolella, "Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella
"Squinabolella "sp. A"" = Nabolella Petrushevskaya 1981 radiolarian
"Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella Petrushevskaya 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus orchardi Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium aff. fosteri Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Betraccium perilense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella primitiva n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Crucella flowerpotensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hexaporobrachiidae
? Icrioma cistella Carter 1993 radiolarian