Gabal, Musaba Salama Area, SK1 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Sinai, Egypt (29.1° N, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 28.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Neocomian (145.0 - 130.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, argillaceous, carbonaceous claystone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical

Primary reference: M. Kora and S. El Beialy. 1989. Early Cretaceous palynomorphs from Gabal Musaba Salama area, Southwestern Sinai, Egypt. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 58:129-138 [C. Jaramillo/G. Doria/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140636: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gabriela Doria on 13.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
 Cupressales - Pinidae
"Spheripollenites sp." = Sphaeripollenites Couper 1958
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Neoraistrickia sp. PotoniƩ 1956 spikemoss
Alisporites
  -
Alisporites similis Dettmann 1963
Auritulinasporites
  -
Triplanosporites
  -
Concavisporites
  -
Concavisporites sp. Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Pteridopsida
  -
Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
  - Blechnaceae
Impardecispora apiverrucata
  -
Impardecispora apiverrucata Venkatachala et al. 1968
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Cycadopites
  -
Cycadopites sp. Wodehouse 1933
Cycadopites nitidus de Jersey 1964
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Callialasporites trilobatus Balme 1957 podocarp
Callialasporites dampieri Balme 1957 podocarp
 Life -