87-CNA-SKUD-8 Kunga Island: Rhaetian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Spumellaria informal indet. B Ehrenberg 1875
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
Plafkerium informal sp. A Pessagno et al. 1979
Plafkerium fidicularium Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Relindellidae
? Pentaspongodiscus dihexacanthus Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella ultrabifida Carter 1993
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993
Risella tledoensis Carter 1993
recombined as Serilla tledoensis
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993
Loupanus informal sp. A Carter 1993
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993
? Bistarkum cylindratum Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Liassosaturnalis aff. parvus Kozur and Mostler 1990
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium aff. skidegatense Pessagno and Blome 1980
Betraccium informal sp. C Pessagno et al. 1979
Betraccium kennecottense Carter 1993
Cantalum gratum Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993
Fontinella clara Carter 1993
Fontinella habros Carter 1993
Fontinella inflata Carter 1993
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Kozurastrum informal sp. B De Wever 1984
synonym of Hexasaturnalis
Pseudoacanthocircus troegeri Kozur and Mostler 1990
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria
Nassellaria informal indet. A Ehrenberg 1875
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus ingrahamensis Carter 1993
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Deflandrecyrtium nobense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
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
Globolaxtorum cristatum Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Praecitriduma apexensis Carter 1993
Livarella densiporata Kozur and Mostler 1981
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Nabolellidae
Squinabolella desrochersi Carter 1993
recombined as Nabolella desrochersi
Squinabolella aff. desrochersi Carter 1993
recombined as Nabolella desrochersi
Squinabolella causia Carter 1993
recombined as Nabolella causia
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera informal sp. A 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
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kunga Formation:Sandilands
Local section:SKUD Local bed:47 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: 15x40 cm flattened 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:94754
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-03-10 05:51:02 Last modified:2010-03-10 07:51:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-03-10 05:51:02
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]