87-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

• small 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 94753: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Nassellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Canoptum "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Canoptum "sp. B" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982 radiolarian
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Laxtorum porterheadense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus orchardi Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
"Squinabolella desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi, "Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella
"Squinabolella desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Squinabolella "sp. C"" = Nabolella Petrushevskaya 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium nobense n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Globolaxtorum cristatum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Praecitriduma apexensis n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
Praecitriduma canthofistula Carter 1993 radiolarian
Praecitriduma mostleri Kozur 1984 radiolarian
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986 radiolarian
Citriduma "sp. C" De Wever 1982 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
"Kozurastrum "sp. B"" = Hexasaturnalis Kozur and Mostler 1983 radiolarian
Kozurastrum aff. sandspitense Blome 1984 radiolarian
Mesosaturnalis "sp. B" Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Entactinosphaera spinulata Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Entactinosphaera aff. simoni Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Ferresium conclusum Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Kungalariidae
 Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Pentactinocarpus cf. sevaticus Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
Spumellaria "indet. C" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
Spumellaria "indet. E" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Paratriassoastrum "sp. A" Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hexaporobrachiidae
? Icrioma "sp. A" De Wever 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium fidicularium n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Plafkerium keloense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Loupanus "sp. A" Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Risella tledoensis" = Serilla tledoensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella stalkungiensis n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Paronaella beatricia n. sp. Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella pacofiensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella habros Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella clara Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum "sp. A" Pessagno 1979 radiolarian
Pseudohagiastrum cf. monstruosum Pessagno 1979 radiolarian
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Crucella "sp. A" Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium aff. skidegatense Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Pantanellium newkluense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Cantalum gratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Betraccium "sp. C" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Betraccium aff. inornatum Blome 1984 radiolarian
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993 radiolarian