87-CNA-KPA-12, 89-CNA-KPA-11 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

• 30x100 cm micrite 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 94709: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. A" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium "sp. A" Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Cantalum "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Cantalum gratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Betraccium inornatum Blome 1984 radiolarian
Betraccium aff. inornatum Blome 1984 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum "sp. A" Pessagno 1979 radiolarian
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Crucella "sp. A" Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella stalkungiensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus "sp. A" Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Plafkerium "sp. B" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Plafkerium fidicularium Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hexaporobrachiidae
? Icrioma "sp. A" De Wever 1979 radiolarian
? Icrioma cistella Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Ferresium "sp. B" Blome 1984 radiolarian
Ferresium aff. laseekense Blome 1984 radiolarian
Ferresium teekwoonense Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
"Kozurastrum huxleyense" = Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis
"Kozurastrum huxleyense" = Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Nassellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis acrostylus Bragin 1991 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Canoptum "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Canoptum "sp. B" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Haeckelicyrtium karcharos Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Canutus ingrahamensis n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Globolaxtorum cristatum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986 radiolarian
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
"Squinabolella desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi, "Squinabolella aff. desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi, "? Squinabolella trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa, "Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella
"Squinabolella desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Squinabolella aff. desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi Carter 1993 radiolarian
"? Squinabolella trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella Petrushevskaya 1981 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian