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and SAID, I960) and Gebel Aweina section, near Esna, about 60 Kilometer south from Luxor, because it is the type locality of the famous "Esna Shale" (BEADNELL, 1905; HUME, 1911; YOUSSSP, 1954; SAID & SABRY, 1964). BARRON and BEADNELL mapped the area from Qena to Esna in 1897. The only work done in this area is by PARIS (1947), who described a section from the area between Taramsa and Tukh. He divided the section into a lower Cretaceous part and an upper Eocene part. He assigned the lower part of the Dakhla Shale "Lower Esna Shale" to the Maestrichtian, the upper part of the Shale and the overlying chalky limestone to the Danian and the overlying Thebes formation "Limestone with flint" to the Eocene.The only planktonic foraminifera that is recorded by PARIS (1947) from the Esna Shale of this section is Globorotalia of. velas- coensis. Paleontology The present paper describes and illustrates the planktonic foraminifera of the lower Tertiary rocks of the Taramsa section. The fauna from the Taramsa section has not been described before. The author made use of the different studies on the planktonic foraminifera of the Cretaceous - lower Tertiary deposits from the different localities in Egypt (NAKKADY, 1947, 1951, 1959; SAID & KENAWY, 1956; SAID, I960; SAID & KERDANY, 1961; SAID & SABRY, 1964; EL NAGGAR, 1966) in the time from many different parts of the world (BERGGREN 1962; BOLLI 1957; HAY I960; HILLEBRANDT 1962, 1965; HOPKER I960; LOEBLICH & TAPPAN 1957; SUBBOTINA 1953; TROELSEN 1957) in order to indicate the different zones made by these important fossils and in the same time to solve the age problem of these different zones.