KW-1 Well, 3500-3510 m depth: Middle Cenomanian, South Sudan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ginkgoopsida - Ephedrales
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Angiospermae - Austrobaileyales - Trimeniaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:South Sudan
Coordinates: 9.3° North, 29.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.5° South, 29.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
Key time interval: Middle Cenomanian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bentiu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: early "mid" Cenomanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
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:200014
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2019-02-23 18:43:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-02-23 18:43:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]