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creators_name: Cole, J.M.
creators_name: Abdelrahim, O.B.
creators_name: Hunter, A.W.
creators_name: Schrank, E.
creators_name: Ismail, M.S.B.
title: 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
ispublished: pub
keywords: angiosperm; biozonation; Cretaceous; dispersal; fossil assemblage; palynology; rift zone; spore, Muglad Basin; South Sudan, Magnoliophyta
note: cited By 12
abstract: This paper presents a first detailed study on and new zonation scheme for the Kaikang Trough, Muglad Basin of South Sudan. The Kaikang Trough lies within the central sediment locus of the Muglad Basin, a non-marine African cratonic basin within the Central African Rift System (CARS) Two wells, KW-1 and K-4, were examined leading to the recognition of five palynological assemblage zones: K-I (early�middle Cenomanian), K-II (late Cenomanian), K-III (Turonian?�Santonian), K-IV (Campanian�Maastrichtian) and K-V (Maastrichtian). The elaterate group are peculiarly absent in otherwise rich Cenomanian palynological assemblages of the Muglad Basin. Why this is so, and the implications for the global middle Cretaceous Elaterate Province, needs some explanation. The CARS provided a range of diverse freshwater alluvial and lake-shore substrates. Its cross-continent sweep may have played a role in the evolution and dispersal of floras including early angiosperms as the rift basin of the proto-South Atlantic became a permanently flooded fjord. © 2017 AASP�The Palynological Society.
date: 2017
publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018834786&doi=10.1080%2f01916122.2017.1303795&partnerID=40&md5=6ea2a6e97d207c5e414b37fcdd89ef32
id_number: 10.1080/01916122.2017.1303795
full_text_status: none
publication: Palynology
volume: 41
number: 4
pagerange: 547-578
refereed: TRUE
issn: 01916122
citation:   Cole, J.M. and Abdelrahim, O.B. and Hunter, A.W. and Schrank, E. and Ismail, M.S.B.  (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 (4).  pp. 547-578.  ISSN 01916122