S1-10-89-CNA-SKUD-39 Kunga Island: Middle Hettangian - Late/Upper Hettangian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Quinquecapsulariidae
Empirea hasta Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Heptacladidae
Pseudoheptacladus informal sp. A Lahm 1984
synonym of Parentactinosphaera
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Tozerium nascens Carter et al. 1998
Charlottea weedensis Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Palaeosaturnalis prinevillensis (Blome 1984)
Praehexasaturnalis tetraradiatus Kozur and Mostler 1990
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Pseudoeucyrtis fullerensis Carter et al. 1998
Protokatroma aquila Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum columbiaense Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Relanus reefensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis elizabethae Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus hecatensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989
Amuria macfarlanei Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Spumellaria informal indet. A Ehrenberg 1875
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium kluense Pessagno and Blome 1980
Pantanellium browni Pessagno and Blome 1980
Pantanellium tanuense Pessagno and Blome 1980
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella botanyensis Carter et al. 1998
Paronaella skenaensis Carter et al. 1998
Paronaella ravenensis Carter et al. 1998
Thurstonia minutaglobus Carter et al. 1998
Thurstonia gibsoni Carter et al. 1998
Danubea howardi Carter et al. 1998
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Udalia plana Carter et al. 1998
Udalia primaeva Carter et al. 1998
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:126.85 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 lens, 15 cm x 70 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:94288
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-02-16 04:25:40 Last modified:2010-02-16 06:25:40
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-16 04:25:40
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]