89-CNA-SKUD-15 Kunga Island: Rhaetian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Pseudoacanthocircus troegeri Kozur and Mostler 1990
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
? Eptingium onesimos Carter 1993
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Entactiniidae indet. Riedel 1967
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Canoptum informal sp. A Pessagno et al. 1979
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Citriduma informal sp. C De Wever 1982
Citriduma asteroides Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Haeckelicyrtium karcharos Carter 1993
Deflandrecyrtium nobense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Bagotidae
? Canutus beehivensis Carter 1993
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Bipedis acrostylus Bragin 1991
Protozoa - Xiphostylidae
Archaeocenosphaera informal sp. A Pessagno et al. 1989
Archaeocenosphaera aff. laseekensis Pessagno et al. 1989
Protozoa - Spumellaria
Spumellaria informal indet. B Ehrenberg 1875
? Haliomma sewellense Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Risella ellisensis Carter 1993
Loupanus thompsoni Carter 1993
? Paronaella beatricia Carter 1993
Paronaella bifida Carter 1993
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Liassosaturnalis aff. parvus Kozur and Mostler 1990
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Betraccium informal sp. E Pessagno et al. 1979
Pantanellium aff. skidegatense Pessagno and Blome 1980
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:SKUD Local bed:49.9 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: parts of 3 medium-sized nodules (10x25 cm, 10x25 cm, 10x45 cm) 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:94757
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:A. Kocsis Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-03-10 05:56:29 Last modified:2012-07-10 05:18:12
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-03-10 05:56:29
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]