GPSW-7 WELL, Sample 29: Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida
- Cheirolepidiaceae
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Classopollis brasilensis
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0,5 rank | ||||||
Dinophyceae
- Gonyaulacales
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Xiphophoridium alatum
Sarjeant 1966
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5-9 rank | ||||||
Dinophyceae
- Peridiniales
- Peridiniaceae
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Palaeohystrichophora infusorioides
Deflandre 1936
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1-4 rank | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | north Western Desert |
Coordinates: | 30.0° North, 28.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.8° 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: | Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian | Pollen zone: | Classopollis brasiliensis |
Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Abu Roash | Member: | G |
Local section: | Abu Roash-G | Local bed: | 1830-1833 m |
Local order: | top to bottom |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray lithified calcareous mudstone |
Secondary lithology: | gray lithified calcareous "shale" |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: The Bahariya Formation is conformably overlain by the Abu Roash G Member (middle/late Cenomanian) which does not witness any marked palynofloral or palynofacies changes from the underlying Bahariya Formation, except in its lower part, which contains high amounts of dinocysts suggesting a marine influence. The deposition of the Abu Roash G Member took place in a shallow marine setting (Barakat et al., 1980), based on microfacies analysis of the Cretaceous deposits in the north Western Desert. This finding was also supported by ostracodes and foraminifera identified from the same interval in the GPTSW-7 well (GPC, 1994). The Abu Roash G Member is located within the field V of the AOM–Phytoclast–Palynomorph ternary plot of Tyson (1993), corresponding to mud-dominated oxic shelf (Fig. 5A) and within the very high terrestrial/fresh-water influx field (Fig. 5B) of Roncaglia and Kuijpers (2006) ternary plot. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | soft parts,original sporopollenin |
Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
Collection methods: | core,chemical |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 140407 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | G. Doria | Research group: | paleobotany |
Created: | 2013-03-09 06:35:46 | Last modified: | 2013-03-08 13:35:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-09 06:35:46 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
43920. | S. El Beialy, H. S. El Atfy, M. S. Zavada, E. M. El Khoriby, and R. H. Abu-Zied. 2010. Palynological, palynofacies, paleoenvironmental and organic geochemical studies on the Upper Cretaceous succession of the GPTSW-7 well, North Western Desert, Egypt. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27:370-385 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/G. Doria] |