87-CNA-SKUD-4 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

• 3 small micrite concretions (3x7 cm) from the same bed 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 94749: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata, Fontinella habros
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella habros Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense, Tetraporobrachia "sp. D"
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Tetraporobrachia "sp. D" Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Cantalum tianense, Betraccium perilense
Cantalum tianense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Betraccium perilense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella yaogusensis, Paronaella bifida, Paronaella ultrabifida, ? Bistarkum cylindratum
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet., ? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967 radiolarian
? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Kozurastrum beattiense
Kozurastrum beattiense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum cf. triassicum, Canoptum aff. dixoni
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
"? Squinabolella trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa
"? Squinabolella trispinosa" = Nabolella trispinosa Carter 1993 radiolarian