KW-1 Well, 2810-2820 m depth: Turonian - Santonian, South Sudan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Foveomonocolpites sp. Wijmstra 1971
Gnetaceaepollenites oreadis Srivastava 1968
Algae - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849
Pteridopsida
Todisporites minor Couper 1953
Angiospermae - Fabales - Polygalaceae
Tubistephanocolpites cylindricus Salami 1984
Angiospermae - Liliaceae
Liliacidites sp. Couper 1953
see common names

Geography
Country:South Sudan
Coordinates: 9.3° North, 29.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.5° South, 21.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Turonian - Santonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Darfur Formation:Aradeiba
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified claystone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,chemical,hydrochloric,hydroflouric
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:199972
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2019-02-23 16:58:13 Last modified:2019-02-23 16:58:13
Access level:the public Released:2019-02-23 16:58:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

65104. 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]