89-CNA-SKUB-10 Kunga Island: Rhaetian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium informal sp. A Kozur and Mostler 1979
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
? Bipedis informal sp. A De Wever 1982
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981
Citriduma informal sp. B De Wever 1982
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Kozurastrum huxleyense Carter 1993
recombined as Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
Triassocrucella informal sp. A Kozur 1984
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hexaporobrachiidae
? Icrioma cistella Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Betraccium perilense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Fontinella primitiva Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 52.8° North, 131.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.2° South, 126.8° 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 Other zone: Proparvicingula moniliformis
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kunga Formation:Sandilands
Local section:SKUB Local bed:45 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: zone information from Carter and Guex (1999)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: nodular layer (10x40 cm) 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:94727
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:A. Kocsis Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-03-10 04:30:49 Last modified:2012-07-10 05:35:48
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-03-10 04:30:49
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]