West Tiba-1, Zone PIII, Sample 17: Aptian - Early/Lower Albian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cicatticosisporites myrtellii
Rare category
Murospora sp. Somers 1952
Rare category
Concavisporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Rare category
Polypodiopsida - Marsileaceae
Crybelosporites sp. Dettmann 1963
Rare category
Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Schizaeaceae
Cicatricosisporites spo
Rare category
Pteridopsida
Todisporites minor Couper 1953
Present category
Deltoidospora spp.
Common category
Angiospermae
Retimonocolpites sp. Pierce 1961
Rare category
Angiospermae - Gunnerales
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953
Rare category
Angiospermae
Afropollis jardinus Doyle et al. 1982
Common category
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Balmeisporites sp. Cookson and Dettmann 1958
Rare category
Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Rare category
Equisetopsida - Cheirolepidiaceae
Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953
Rare category
Classopollis classoides Pflug 1953
Common category
Equisetopsida - Cupressales
Inaperturopollenites spp.
Present category
unclassified
Cycadopites spp.
Present category
Ginkgoopsida - Ephedrales
Ephedripites multicostatus Brenner 1963
Common category
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 27.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.7° North, 24.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burg El-Arab Member:Kharita
Local section:Burg El-Arab Local bed:8000 ft
Local order:top to bottom
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
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:139328
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:G. Doria
Modifier:G. Doria Research group:paleobotany
Subset of collection #:139303
Created:2013-02-11 03:50:29 Last modified:2013-02-10 11:21:54
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-11 03:50:29
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]