89-CNA-SKUB-11 Kunga Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 131.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 126.8° 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

• 10x30 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 94728: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium amoenum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Ferresium triquetrum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967 radiolarian
? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Kozurastrum sandspitense, "Kozurastrum gracilis" = Praemesosaturnalis gracilis, "Kozurastrum huxleyense" = Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis
Kozurastrum sandspitense Blome 1984 radiolarian
"Kozurastrum gracilis" = Praemesosaturnalis gracilis Kozur and Mostler 1972 radiolarian
"Kozurastrum huxleyense" = Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria -
Kahlerosphaera "sp. A" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Pentactinocarpus cf. sevaticus Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium "sp. A" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
Deflandrecyrtium "sp. B" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
Deflandrecyrtium nobense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986 radiolarian
Praecitriduma apexensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Praecitriduma canthofistula Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Laxtorum aff. kulense Blome 1984 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis acrostylus Bragin 1991 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
"Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella, "? Squinabolella aff. trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa
"Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella Petrushevskaya 1981 radiolarian
"? Squinabolella aff. trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus orchardi Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Betraccium inornatum Blome 1984 radiolarian
Betraccium aff. inornatum Blome 1984 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella habros Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
Triassocrucella "sp. A", "Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica
Triassocrucella "sp. A" Kozur 1984 radiolarian
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Tetratrabs noricus Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Tetraporobrachia "sp. C" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
Tetraporobrachia composita Carter 1993 radiolarian
Crucella "sp. C" Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hexaporobrachiidae
? Icrioma cistella Carter 1993 radiolarian