An early Cretaceous angiosperm pollen assemblage from Egypt

Issue Number: SPP35
Thematic Volume: Studies in Palaeobotany and Palynology in Honour of N.F. Hughes
Edited By: D.J. Batten and D.E.G. Briggs
Publication Date: 1986
Page(s): 121 - 134
Authored By: J. H. J. Penny

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A new assemblage of angiosperm pollen has been recovered from core samples of the borehole Mersa Matruh-l in the North West Desert of Egypt. Six new species are described: Stellatopollis hughesii, S. bituberensis, Retimonocolpites matruhensis, R. muristriatus, R . muriundulatus, and Liliacidites aegyptiacus. Comparison with palynofloras from southern England, North America, West Africa, and Israel suggests a late Barremian age for the samples, making this the earliest angiosperm pollen assemblage yet described from Egypt.

Citations

Penny, J.H.J. 1986. An early Cretaceous angiosperm pollen assemblage from Egypt. In: D.J. Batten and D.E.G. Briggs (eds.) Studies in Palaeobotany and Palynology in Honour of N.F. Hughes. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 35, 121–134.