Marine Trace-fossils of the Western Desert/Egypt
 (Gilf Kebir area & Jebel Uweinat)

Norbert Brügge, Germany
Dipl.-Geol.

 

  Gilf Kebir area 

Carboniferous layers

Abdel-Malik Plateau, Wadi Talh area
Upper Paleozoic trace fossils from the Gilf Kebir-Abu Ras area in southwestern Egypt
Adolf Seilacher -- Journal of African Earth Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 21 to 34, 1983

Zoophycos

Nereites

Scolitia

 Bifungites

 Asteriacites

 

Asterichnus Conostichus Phycosiphon Trichophycus  

 

Wadi Talh

 Wadi Hamra

Eastern foreland of Wadi Hamra

 

 

 

Bifungites (Author)

 2x Nereites (Ursula Steiner)

Asterichnus (Ursula Steiner)

 

Silurian layers

Jabal Rukn, Um Ras site

Jabal Asba (Libya)    

   

Cruziana (Seilacher)

Cruziana (S. Lüning) Arthrophycus (S. Lüning)    


  Jebel Uweinat
(Sudanese part)

Silurian layers

Karkur Talh (lower level)

Nereites ? (Author) Arthrophycus (Author)

Arthrophycus (Andas Zboray)

Arthrophycus (Gabor Merkl) Cruziana ? (Seilacher)

Karkur Talh (higher level)

Arthrophycus (Author)

3x Arthrophycus (Andras Zboray)

Arthrophycus (Gabor Merkl)