West Tiba-1, Zone PII, Sample 12: Hauterivian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Concavissimisporites variverrucatus
Brenner 1963
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Rare category | ||||||
Cycadopites spp.
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Rare category | ||||||
Pteridopsida
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Ischyosporites spp.
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Rare category | ||||||
Deltoidospora spp.
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Abundant category | ||||||
Osmundacidites wellmanfi
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Rare category | ||||||
unclassified
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Concavisporites sp.
Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
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Common category | ||||||
Pilosisporites sp.
Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
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Rare category | ||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Schizaeales
- Schizaeaceae
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Cicatricosisporites spo
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Rare category | ||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Marsileaceae
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Crybelosporites sp.
Dettmann 1963
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Rare category | ||||||
Polypodiopsida
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Biretisporites potoniaei
Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
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Rare category | ||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Gleicheniaceae
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Gleicheniidites spp.
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Rare category | ||||||
Marchantiopsida
- Sphaerocarpales
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Aequitriradites verrucosus
(Cookson and Dettmann 1958)
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Rare category | ||||||
original and current combination Cirratriradites verrucosus | |||||||
Angiospermae
- Austrobaileyales
- Trimeniaceae
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Cretacaeiporites densimurus
Schrank and Ibrahim 1995
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Coniferales
- Podocarpaceae
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Callialasporites dampieri
(Balme 1957)
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Present category | ||||||
original and current combination Zonallapollenites dampieri | |||||||
Callialasporites trilobatus
(Balme 1957)
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Rare category | ||||||
original and current combination Tsugaepollenites trilobatus | |||||||
Equisetopsida
- Araucariaceae
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Araucariacites sp.
Cookson and Couper 1953
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Balmeisporites sp.
Cookson and Dettmann 1958
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Present category | ||||||
Equisetopsida
- Cheirolepidiaceae
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Classopollis sp.
Pflug 1953
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Abundant category | ||||||
Equisetopsida
- Cupressales
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Inaperturopollenites spp.
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Present category | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Western Desert |
Coordinates: | 31.0° North, 27.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.7° North, 24.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Hauterivian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
Key time interval: | Hauterivian | ||
Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Burg El-Arab | Member: | Alam El-Beuib |
Local section: | Burg El-Arab | Local bed: | 8680 ft |
Local order: | top to bottom |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified argillaceous claystone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified argillaceous,silty "shale" |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | soft parts,original sporopollenin |
Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 139323 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | G. Doria | Research group: | paleobotany |
Subset of collection #: | 139303 | ||
Created: | 2013-02-11 03:42:23 | Last modified: | 2013-02-10 10:42:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-11 03:42:23 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
44781. | 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] |