89-CNA-SKUD-15 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

• parts of 3 medium-sized nodules (10x25 cm, 10x25 cm, 10x45 cm) 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 94757: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Pseudoacanthocircus troegeri Kozur and Mostler 1990 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium nobense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Haeckelicyrtium karcharos Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Citriduma "sp. C" De Wever 1982 radiolarian
Citriduma asteroides Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis acrostylus Bragin 1991 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera "sp. A" Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989 radiolarian
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium aff. skidegatense Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Betraccium "sp. E" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993 radiolarian
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993 radiolarian
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993 radiolarian
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Liassosaturnalis aff. parvus Kozur and Mostler 1990 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993 radiolarian