Lower Carboniferous plants from Abu-Thora Formation in Southwest Sinai

Abstract

Impressions of stem fragments of Lepidodendrales are described from Lower Carboniferous strata from Abu-Thora Formation in Southwest Sinai .

Late Carboniferous Macroflora from Rod El-Hamal Formation Wadi Araba, North Eastern Desert, Egypt

“…Up till now, 133 fossil plant taxa have been reported from this age (16 from Devono-Carboniferous, 91 from Early Carboniferous,9 from Carboniferous and 17 from Late Carboniferous) [ cf. Salter 1868;Newton 1909;Ball 1916;Cuvillier 1928;Seward1932;Jongmans and Koopmans 1940;Jongmans and Van Der Heide 1955;Boureau 1954Boureau & 1958Horowitz 1973;Lejal-Nicol1987 &1990;Issawi & Jux 1982;Barakat et al1984;Klitzsch and Lejal-Nicol 1984;Darwish,1990;Yousef 1993;Darwish and El-Kelani 2001]. The majority (126 species) of the reported fossils belong to pteridophytes while a small minority (7 species) belongs to gymnosperms.…”

Detarioxylon aegyptiacum (Leguminosae), from Lower Miocene marine sediments in Southern Sinai.

“…There are, however, some references on the occurrence of other remains of gymnosperms (quite few) and of pteridophytes (mainly ferns and lepidodendrales) in Pre-Tertiary strata in the Sinai Massif (Horowitz, 1973;Barakat et. al., 1984;El-Saadawi & Kedves , 1984;Darwish & El-Kelani, 2001).…”