87-CNA-SKUD-8 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

• 15x40 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 94754: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
"Kozurastrum "sp. B"" = Hexasaturnalis Kozur and Mostler 1983 radiolarian
Pseudoacanthocircus troegeri Kozur and Mostler 1990 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Nassellaria "indet. A" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium nobense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
Praecitriduma apexensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
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 - Nabolellidae
"Squinabolella desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi, "Squinabolella aff. desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi, "Squinabolella causia" = Nabolella causia
"Squinabolella desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Squinabolella aff. desrochersi" = Nabolella desrochersi Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Squinabolella causia" = Nabolella causia Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria -
Globolaxtorum cristatum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Cantalum gratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
Pantanellium aff. skidegatense Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Betraccium "sp. C" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella clara Carter 1993 radiolarian
Fontinella habros Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
"Risella tledoensis" = Serilla tledoensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus "sp. A" Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Liassosaturnalis aff. parvus Kozur and Mostler 1990 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Plafkerium fidicularium Carter 1993 radiolarian