New marine ostracod species from the Middle Eocene of west-central Sinai, Egypt

作者：Morsi Abdel Mohsen M^*; Hewaidy Abdel Galil A; Samir Ahmed

来源：Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2016, 117: 150-159.

DOI：10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.01.023

• Ostracoda
• Taxonomy
• New species
• Middle Eocene
• Egypt

The study of two Eocene sections exposed at Wadi Nukhul and Wadi Tayiba in west-central Sinai, Egypt for ostracods yielded diverse fauna. Investigation of the recorded taxa revealed findings of eight new marine ostracod species, one belonging to the family Krithidae, Parakrithe tayibaensis n. sp., three to the family Cytheruridae, Cytheropteron bicostsatum n. sp., Cytheropteron nukhulensis n. sp. and Cytheropteron speijeri n. sp., three to the family Trachyleberididae: Digmocythere centroreticulata n. sp. in subfamily Brachycytherinae and Buntonia bassiounii n. sp. and Buntonia posteroacuta n. sp. in subfamily Buntoniinae, and one, Xestoleberis posterotruncata n. sp., to the family Xestoleberididae. The newly erected species have been described and compared with nearest known and probably related taxa. Their records in the studied sections are stratigraphically confined to the Middle Eocene (Lutetian-Bartonian) interval.

• 出版日期2016-5