88-CNA-KPA-R8 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

• 5x30 cm concretionary nodule 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 94706: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Crucella "sp. C" Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Droltus orchardi Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Globolaxtorum cristatum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum "sp. B" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Laxtorum porterheadense Carter 1993 radiolarian