87-CNA-SKUB-13 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: Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 3x10 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 94735: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum "sp. A" Pessagno 1979 radiolarian
Crucella flowerpotensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium amoenum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian