West Tiba-1, Zone PII, Sample 12 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Western Desert, Egypt (31.0° N, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 24.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Alam El-Beuib Member (Burg El-Arab Formation), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, argillaceous claystone and lithified, argillaceous, silty shale

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 139323: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 11.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Concavisporites
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Concavisporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Pilosisporites
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Pilosisporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Polypodiopsida
  - Marsileaceae
Crybelosporites sp. Dettmann 1963
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleicheniidites spp. Dettmann 1963
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
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Biretisporites potoniaei Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Pteridopsida
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Marchantiopsida
 Sphaerocarpales -
Aequitriradites verrucosus Cookson and Dettmann 1958
Concavissimisporites
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Cycadopites
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Cycadopites spp. Wodehouse 1933
Equisetopsida
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Inaperturopollenites spp. PotoniƩ 1966
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Balmeisporites sp. Cookson and Dettmann 1958
Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953
Angiospermae
 Austrobaileyales - Trimeniaceae
Cretacaeiporites densimurus Schrank and Ibrahim 1995
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Callialasporites dampieri Balme 1957 podocarp
Callialasporites trilobatus Balme 1957 podocarp