87-CNA-SKUB-16 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

• 3x20 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 94739: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Cantalum gratum, Betraccium "sp. D", Betraccium kennecottense
Cantalum gratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Betraccium "sp. D" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella bifida, ? Paronaella beatricia
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium fidicularium
Plafkerium fidicularium Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993 radiolarian