89-CNA-SKUD-22 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

• small pod of limestone 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 94761: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria -
Globolaxtorum tozeri Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Radiolaria -
Spumellaria "indet. B" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
Spumellaria "indet. C" Ehrenberg 1875 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica
"Triassocrucella aff. triassicum" = Triassocrucella triassica Kozur and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Paratriassoastrum "sp. B" Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Liassosaturnalis aff. parvus Kozur and Mostler 1990 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma multibrachiata Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Betraccium "sp. E" Pessagno et al. 1979 radiolarian
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993 radiolarian
Betraccium nodulum Carter 1993 radiolarian