Dakhla Oasis Area, MW-4 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: El Wadi El Gadid, Egypt (25.0° N, 28.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 23.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Six Hills Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siltstone and lithified shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical,

Primary reference: E. Schrank and M. S. Mahmoud. 2002. Barremian angiosperm pollen and associated palynomorphs from the Dakhla Oasis Area, Egypt. Palaeontology 45(1):33-56 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139493: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 12.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Life -
Pteridopsida
  -
Clavatisporites spp. Kedves and Simoncsics 1964
Cyathidites sp. Couper 1953
Deltoidospora spp. Miner 1935
Triplanosporites
  -
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Cicatricosisporites spp. Potonie and Gelletich 1933
  -
Verrucosisporites spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Biretisporites sp. Delcourt et al. 1963
  - Blechnaceae
Leptolepidites sp. Couper 1953
Angiospermae
  -
Retimonocolpites pennyi Schrank and Mahmoud 2002
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Ephedripites spp. Bolkhovitina and PotoniƩ 1958
Ephedripites jansonii Muller 1968
Cycadopites
  -
Cycadopites spp. Wodehouse 1933
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucariacites spp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Classopollis spp. Pflug 1953
 Cupressales - Pinidae
"Spheripollenites scabratus" = Sphaeripollenites, "Spheripollenites spp." = Sphaeripollenites
"Spheripollenites scabratus" = Sphaeripollenites
"Spheripollenites spp." = Sphaeripollenites Couper 1958
Marchantiopsida
  - Marchantiidae
 Sphaerocarpales -
Aequitriradites spp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Aequitriradites acusus Dettmann 1963
Aequitriradites spinulosus Cookson and Dettmann 1958