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Middle Eocene Ostracods from southeast Fayoum area,Egypt: Systematics,paleobathymetry and paleobiogeography
Institution:1. Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Italy;2. University of Milano-Bicocca, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milano, Italy;3. CoNISMa (Inter-University Consortium for the Sciences of the Sea) Roma, Italy;4. Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy
Abstract:This study deals with the Middle Eocene ostracods from southeast Fayoum area, Egypt. To carry out this investigation, three outcrops are examined, Gebel Elwe El Breig, Gebel Sath El Hadid and Gebel Munqar El-Shinnara. This study is based on the Midawara Formation that consists mainly of fossiliferous limestone, marly limestone and clay. The studied ostracod assemblage includes thirty-one species and subspecies, belonging to twenty-three genera and seventeen families. The ostracod group belonging to Cytheroidea Baird, 1850 represents the most abundant group that reaches 81.99% in Munqar El-Shinnara section, 81.88% in Sath El Hadid section, and 61.12% in Elwe El Breig section. The structure of the investigated assemblages (abundance of ostracods, number of taxa, Fisher's alpha, Shannon index, and equitability) indicates deposition in an environment belonging to the neritic zone. Moreover, this study tries to use the multivariate analyses to distinguish the paleobiogeographic provinces in Tethyan region during the Middle Eocene. These analyses are applied on a matrix consists of some nominated Middle Eocene species from 13 countries. The results point to two distinctive provinces, Southern Tethys Province (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Jordan) and the Northern Tethys Province (England, Germany, Spain, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Hungary and Turkey). The reasonable similarities between these provinces may reflect a possible connection between both sides of the Tethys during the Middle Eocene age.
Keywords:Ostracoda  Middle Eocene  Taxonomy  Paleobiogeography  Egypt  Fayoum  Ostracodes  Éocène moyen  Taxonomie  Paléobiogéographie  Égypte  Fayoum
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