Where: Western Desert, Egypt (31.0° N, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 24.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Kharita Member (Burg El-Arab Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 109.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous dolomite and lithified, argillaceous claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Primary reference: M. S. Mahmoud and A.-R. M. Moawad. 2000. Jurassic-Cretaceous (Bathonian to Cenomanian) palynology and stratigraphy of the West Tiba-1 borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 30:401-416 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139326: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 11.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cycadopites | |
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Cycadopites spp. Wodehouse 1933 | |
| Pteridopsida | |
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Ischyosporites spp. Balme 1957
Deltoidospora spp. Miner 1935 | |
| Duplexisporites generalis | |
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Duplexisporites generalis Deak 1962 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Crybelosporites sp. Dettmann 1963 | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Retimonocolpites sp. Pierce 1961 | |
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Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953 | |
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Afropollis jardinus Doyle et al. 1982 | |
| Equisetopsida | |
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Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953 | |