ammonites
00-CNA-6.5 Kunga Island (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 131.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 126.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.6 - 196.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified siltstone

• limestone concretion in sandstone/siltstone/shale

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: L. M. Longridge, E. S. Carter, P. L. Smith and H. W. Tipper. 2007. Early Hettangian ammonites and radiolarians from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia and their bearing on the definition of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244:142-169 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97495: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.08.2010