Where: Western Desert, Egypt (30.4° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 25.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, fine-grained, gray, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin
Primary reference: I. Sultan. 1978. Mid-Cretaceous plat microfossils from the northern part of the Western Desert of Egypt. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 25:259-267 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144954: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 23.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Equisetopsida | |
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Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947
Classopollis classoides Pflug 1953 | |
Inaperturopollenites patellaeformis, Inaperturopollenites limbatus, Inaperturopollenites turbatus, Inaperturopollenites atlanticus
Inaperturopollenites limbatus Balme 1957
Inaperturopollenites turbatus Balme 1957
Inaperturopollenites atlanticus Groot et al. 1961 | |
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Circulina parva Brenner 1963 | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Tricolpites albiensis Kemp 1968 | |
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Retimonocolpites sp. Pierce 1961 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Trilites "sp. S.CI. 124" Erdtman and Couper 1947 | |
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Cicatricosisporites australiensis Potonié 1956 | |
| Pteridopsida | |
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Cyathidites australis Couper 1953
Cyathidites minor Couper 1953
Leiotriletes leiodorogensis Krutzsch 1959 | |
| Ginkgoopsida | |
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Ephedripites "sp. 2" Bolkhovitina and Potonié 1958
Ephedripites ovalis Müller 1968
Ephedripites irregularis Herngreen 1973
Ephedripites dudarensis Deak 1962 | |
| Cycadopsida | |
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Elaterosporites klaszi Jardiné 1967 elaterate | |
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Eucommiidites minor cycads | |
| Lycopodiopsida | |
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Densoisporites velatus Dettmann 1963 clubmoss | |
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Perotrilites perinopustulosus Jardiné and Magloire 1965 spikemoss
Perotrilites pannuceus Brenner 1963 spikemoss | |
| Reticulatasporites | |