87-CNA-SKUD-1 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

• 3x7 cm micrite concretion in thinly-bedded, hard siliceous siltstones

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 94745: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A", Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
"? Squinabolella trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa
"? Squinabolella trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium gadoense
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata, Fontinella habros, Fontinella louisensis
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella habros Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Tetratrabs noricus
? Tetratrabs noricus Carter 1993 radiolarian