89-CNA-KPA-14 Kennecott Point, Graham Island: Rhaetian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Betraccium inornatum Blome 1984
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Risella tledoensis Carter 1993
recombined as Serilla tledoensis
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium informal sp. A Pessagno et al. 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 53.9° North, 133.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.2° North, 128.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Rhaetian
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kunga Formation:Sandilands
Local section:KPA Local bed:57.2 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: 5-10 cm limestone bed in thinly-bedded hard siliceous siltstone
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:94711
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-03-10 01:47:16 Last modified:2010-03-10 03:47:16
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-03-10 01:47:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32270. 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]