PBDB Collection

Tahrir Well No.1. (Cretaceous to of Egypt)

Where: Western Desert, Egypt (30.4° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 25.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, fine-grained, gray, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• The samples consist of dark-grey fine grained argillaceous calcareous sandstone, barren of diagnostic ostracods or foraminifers.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin

Primary reference: I. Sultan. 1978. Mid-Cretaceous plat microfossils from the northern part of the Western Desert of Egypt. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 25:259-267 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144954: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 23.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Ginkgocyadophytus nitidus Ginkgocyadophytus nitidus
Equisetopsida
Pinidae - Pinidae	Classopollis classoides, Araucariacites australis Classopollis classoides Pflug 1953 Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947
Cupressales - Pinidae	Inaperturopollenites patellaeformis, Inaperturopollenites limbatus, Inaperturopollenites atlanticus, Inaperturopollenites turbatus Inaperturopollenites patellaeformis Inaperturopollenites limbatus Balme 1957 Inaperturopollenites atlanticus Groot et al. 1961 Inaperturopollenites turbatus Balme 1957
Reticulatasporites
-	Reticulatasporites jardinus Reticulatasporites jardinus
Cycadopsida
Cycadales -	Eucommiidites minor Eucommiidites minor cycads
Gnetales -	Elaterosporites klaszi Elaterosporites klaszi Jardiné 1967 elaterate
Ginkgoopsida
Ephedrales -	Ephedripites "sp. 2", Ephedripites irregularis, Ephedripites dudarensis, Ephedripites ovalis Ephedripites "sp. 2" Bolkhovitina and Potonié 1958 Ephedripites irregularis Herngreen 1973 Ephedripites dudarensis Deak 1962 Ephedripites ovalis Müller 1968
Angiospermae
-	Retimonocolpites sp. Retimonocolpites sp. Pierce 1961
Gunnerales -	Tricolpites albiensis Tricolpites albiensis Kemp 1968

Coniferales -	Circulina parva Circulina parva Brenner 1963
Lycopodiopsida
Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae	Perotrilites perinopustulosus, Perotrilites pannuceus Perotrilites perinopustulosus Jardiné and Magloire 1965 spikemoss Perotrilites pannuceus Brenner 1963 spikemoss
Selaginellales -	Densoisporites velatus Densoisporites velatus Dettmann 1963 clubmoss
Polypodiopsida
- Dicksoniaceae	Trilites "sp. S.CI. 124" Trilites "sp. S.CI. 124" Erdtman and Couper 1947
Schizaeales - Polypodiidae	Cicatricosisporites sp., Cicatricosisporites australiensis Cicatricosisporites sp. Potonie and Gelletich 1933 cf. Plicatella abaca Cicatricosisporites australiensis Potonié 1956
Pteridopsida
-	Leiotriletes leiodorogensis, Matonisporites sp., Cyathidites australis, Cyathidites minor Leiotriletes leiodorogensis Krutzsch 1959 Matonisporites sp. Couper 1958 cf. Phlebopteris conspicuus Cyathidites australis Couper 1953 Cyathidites minor Couper 1953