S1-9-89-CNA-SKUD-38 Kunga Island: Middle Hettangian - Late/Upper Hettangian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Spumellaria informal indet. A Ehrenberg 1875
Spumellaria informal indet. C Ehrenberg 1875
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Thurstonia minutaglobus Carter et al. 1998
Paronaella ravenensis Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium tanuense Pessagno and Blome 1980
Pantanellium browni Pessagno and Blome 1980
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Udalia primaeva Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Charlottea weedensis Carter et al. 1998
Tozerium nascens Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Heptacladidae
Pseudoheptacladus informal sp. A Lahm 1984
synonym of Parentactinosphaera
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis elizabethae Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus hecatensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Pseudoeucyrtis fullerensis Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 52.8° North, 131.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.3° South, 126.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Middle Hettangian - Late/Upper Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.30000 - 196.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kunga Formation:Sandilands
Local section:SKUD Local bed:123.85 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: limy nodule, 3 cm x 10 cm, in hard, thinly-bedded siltstones
Environment:basinal (siliciclastic)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94287
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-02-16 04:24:39 Last modified:2010-02-16 06:24:39
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-16 04:24:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8989. E. S. Carter, P. A. Whalen, and J. Guex. 1998. Biochronology and paleontology of Lower Jurassic (Hettangian and Sinemurian) radiolarians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (496)1-162 [A. Miller/K. Layou/U. Merkel]