Where: South Sudan (9.3° N, 29.1° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 22.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baraka Formation (Darfur Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric
Primary reference: J. M. Cole, O. Babiker Abdelrahim, A. W. Hunter, E. Schrank, and M. S. Bin Ismael. 2017. Late Cretaceous spore-pollen zonation of the Central African Rift System (CARS), Kaikang Trough, Muglad Basin, South Sudan: angiosperm spread and links to the Elaterates Province. Palynology 41:547-578 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199951: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Magnoliopsida | |
|
Retitricolporites sp. Van der Hammen and Wymstra 1964 | |
| Angiospermae | |
|
Echidiporites barbeitoensis Muller et al. 1987 palm
Racemonocolpites racematus Van der Hammen 1954 palm | |
| Pteridopsida | |
|
Cyathidites sp. Couper 1953 | |
| Algae | |
|
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849 | |