87-CNA-SKUD-7 Kunga Island: Rhaetian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Spumellaria informal indet. B Ehrenberg 1875
Spumellaria informal indet. C Ehrenberg 1875
Spumellaria informal indet. E Ehrenberg 1875
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hexaporobrachiidae
? Icrioma informal sp. A De Wever 1979
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Fontinella clara Carter 1993
Fontinella louisensis Carter 1993
Fontinella habros Carter 1993
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium fidicularium n. sp. Carter 1993
Plafkerium gadoense Carter 1993
Plafkerium keloense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Risella tledoensis Carter 1993
recombined as Serilla tledoensis
Risella stalkungiensis n. sp. Carter 1993
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993
Loupanus informal sp. A Carter 1993
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993
? Paronaella beatricia n. sp. Carter 1993
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993
Paronaella pacofiensis Carter 1993
Paronaella yaogusensis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium newkluense Carter 1993
Pantanellium aff. skidegatense Pessagno and Blome 1980
Betraccium informal sp. C Pessagno et al. 1979
Betraccium aff. inornatum Blome 1984
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993
Cantalum gratum Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
? Pseudohagiastrum informal sp. A Pessagno 1979
Pseudohagiastrum cf. monstruosum Pessagno 1979
? Pseudohagiastrum tasuense Carter 1993
? Crucella informal sp. A Pessagno 1971
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Paratriassoastrum informal sp. A Kozur and Mostler 1981
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Patulibracchiidae
Triassocrucella aff. triassicum (Kozur and Mostler 1978)
recombined as Triassocrucella triassica
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Pentactinocarpus cf. sevaticus Kozur and Mostler 1981
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Mesosaturnalis informal sp. B Kozur and Mostler 1981
Kozurastrum informal sp. B De Wever 1984
synonym of Hexasaturnalis
Kozurastrum aff. sandspitense (Blome 1984)
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
? Entactinosphaera spinulata Carter 1993
? Entactinosphaera aff. simoni Kozur and Mostler 1979
? Entactinosphaera amphilaphes n. sp. Carter 1993
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993
Ferresium conclusum Carter 1993
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Kungalariidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967
    = Kungalaria newcombi
Dumitrica and Carter 1999
Protozoa - Nassellaria
Nassellaria informal indet. B Ehrenberg 1875
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Proparvicingula moniliformis Carter 1993
Canoptum informal sp. A Pessagno et al. 1979
Canoptum informal sp. B Pessagno et al. 1979
Canoptum aff. dixoni Pessagno and Whalen 1982
Canoptum cf. triassicum Yao 1982
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Canoptidae
Laxtorum porterheadense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
Squinabolella informal sp. C Kozur and Mostler 1979
replaced by Nabolella
Squinabolella desrochersi Carter 1993
recombined as Nabolella desrochersi
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium nobense n. sp. Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Citriduma informal sp. C De Wever 1982
Praecitriduma mostleri Kozur 1984
Praecitriduma canthofistula Carter 1993
Praecitriduma apexensis n. sp. Carter 1993
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Droltus orchardi Carter 1993
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria
Globolaxtorum cristatum Carter 1993
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera aff. 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: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 - 201.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kunga Formation:Sandilands
Local section:SKUD Local bed:33 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: small micrite nodule in thinly-bedded, hard siliceous 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:94753
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Modifier:A. Kocsis Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-03-10 05:43:21 Last modified:2012-07-10 05:21:11
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-03-10 05:43:21
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]

Secondary references:

32441 P. Dumitrica and E. S. Carter. 1999. Family Kungalariidae, n fam, new Mesozoic entactinarian Radiolaria with a nassellarian-type initial spicule. Micropaleontology 45(3):418-428 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]