Répartition stratigraphique et biozones des kystes de dinoflagellés au passage Jurassique moyen–Jurassique supérieur (Bathonien supérieur–Oxfordien inférieur) dans le Bassin de Guercif, Maroc nord-oriental

Hssaida, Touria; Benzaggagh, Mohamed; Riding, James B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5529-8989; Huault, Vincent; Essamoud, Rachid; Mouflih, Mustapha; Jaydawi, Soukaina; Chakir, Sara; Nahim, et Mohamed. 2017 Répartition stratigraphique et biozones des kystes de dinoflagellés au passage Jurassique moyen–Jurassique supérieur (Bathonien supérieur–Oxfordien inférieur) dans le Bassin de Guercif, Maroc nord-oriental. Annales de Paléontologie, 103 (3). 197-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2017.06.001

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2017.06.001

Abstract/Summary

Despite the stratigraphical significance of dinoflagellate cysts as reliable markers for correlating and dating Jurassic–Cretaceous strata, investigations into this palynomorph group in the southern Tethyan Realm, specifically northwest Africa, are sparse and somewhat parochial. Most research on Jurassic dinoflagellate cysts is focussed on European depocentres in the Boreal and Sub-Boreal realms. This study is on biostratigraphical data from two petroleum boreholes (MSD1 and KDH1) drilled during 1985 in the Guercif Basin, northeast Morocco by ONAREP (Office National de Recherche et d’Exploitation Pétrolier), now ONHYM (Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines). These boreholes penetrated a thick siliciclastic succession, attributed to the Middle and Upper Jurassic, below Miocene marls. Over sixty dinoflagellate cyst taxa were identified. Four dinoflagellate cyst biozones, named GI to GIV, are established for the late Bathonian to early Oxfordian interval. These biozones are defined on the basis of the first appearance datum (FAD) and/or the last appearance datum (LAD) of some biomarker taxa which have wide geographical distributions. These are: Ctenidodinium combazii and Ctenidodinium sellwoodii for the GI Biozone (late Bathonian–early Callovian); Ctenidodinium continuum and Meiourogonyaulax caytonensis for the GII Biozone (middle Callovian); Gonyaulacysta centriconnata and Wanaea thysanota for the GIII Biozone (late Callovian–earliest Oxfordian); and Liesbergia liesbergensis and Systematophora penicillata for the GIV Biozone (early Oxfordian). These biozones are correlated to those already established for the respective intervals in other palaeogeographic regions, such as the Boreal, Sub-boreal and Tethyan realms.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2017.06.001
ISSN:	07533969
Date made live:	09 Jan 2018 13:00 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518912

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2017.06.001

ISSN:

07533969

Date made live:

09 Jan 2018 13:00 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518912