KW-1 Well, 3180-3190 m depth: Middle Cenomanian, South Sudan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Algae - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849
unclassified
Gnetaceaepollenites spp.
Cycadopsida - Gnetales
Steevesipollenites cupuliformis Azema and Boltenhagen 1974
Steevesipollenites sinuosus Azema and Boltenhagen 1974
Ginkgoopsida - Ephedrales
Ephedripites multicostatus Brenner 1963
Angiospermae - Austrobaileyales - Trimeniaceae
Cretacaeiporites sp. Herngreen 1975
Angiospermae
Retimonocolpites bueibensis Ibrahim 2002
Polypodiopsida - Marsileaceae
Crybelosporites pannuceus Srivastava 1977
see common names

Geography
Country:South Sudan
Coordinates: 9.3° North, 29.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.7° South, 20.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bentiu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: early "mid" Cenomanian
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:199994
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2019-02-23 17:27:18 Last modified:2019-02-23 17:27:18
Access level:the public Released:2019-02-23 17:27:18
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]