Biostratigraphy of Ghanema Section (Lower Miocene Al Khums Formation)

الملخص

Ghanema section have been Logging and nine rock samples have been collected with a total thickness about 15m of carbonate, these samples processed used normal technique in order to obtain microfossil ostracoda to be used in delimit age of the Ghanema section

We obtained twenty eight genera and species. Twenty four of them previously recorded from North Africa and Middle East four Genus left in open nomenclature such as Quadracythere sp, Costa sp, Semicytherura sp and Uroleberis sp.

The fauna assemblages in the study section indicate lower Miocene Age (Burdigalian) by the presence of diagnostic fossil (Aurila soummamensis) which is widely distributed in Egypt, Algeria and Libya.