West Tiba-1, Zone PVb, Sample 30: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal Triporates informal sp.
Rare category
Concavisporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Rare category
Equisetopsida - Cheirolepidiaceae
Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953
Common category
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Araucariacites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
Rare category
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947
Rare category
Equisetopsida - Cupressales
Inaperturopollenites spp.
Present category
Angiospermae
Retimonocolpites sp. Pierce 1961
Present category
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 27.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.8° North, 23.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Abu Roash
Local section:Abu Roash Local bed:5610 ft
Local order:top to bottom
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
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:139345
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:G. Doria
Research group:paleobotany
Subset of collection #:139303
Created:2013-02-11 04:15:09 Last modified:2013-02-10 11:15:09
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-11 04:15:09
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]