89-CNA-SKUD-7 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

• 10x35 cm flattened micrite nodule 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 94748: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. E"
Spumellaria "indet. E" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata, Fontinella habros
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella habros Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Cantalum tianense, Pantanellium aff. fosteri
Cantalum tianense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Pantanellium aff. fosteri Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella yaogusensis, Paronaella bifida, Paronaella ultrabifida, Loupanus thompsoni
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium gadoense
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium amoenum
? Eptingium amoenum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes
? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
"Kozurastrum huxleyense" = Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis
"Kozurastrum huxleyense" = Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A"
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum aff. dixoni, Proparvicingula moniliformis
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus beehivensis
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian