Wadi Milk Formation
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| Wadi Milk Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Ash Shamaliyah |
| Sub-units | Wadi Abu Hashim Member |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Siltstone |
| Location | |
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| Approximate paleocoordinates | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| Country | Sudan |
| Extent | Wadi Al-Malik-Bayuda Desert |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Wadi Al-Malik |
Wadi Milk Formation (Sudan) | |
The Wadi Milk Formation is a geological formation in Sudan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Originally, the formation was thought to be Albian to Cenomanian, later research has provided dating to the Campanian to Maastrichtian.[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2] It stretches from the lower Wadi Al-Malik across the Wadi Muqaddam into the Bayuda Desert.[3]
Vertebrate paleofauna
[edit | edit source]Ornithischians
[edit | edit source]| Ornithischians | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa | Presence | Images | |
| Euornithopoda[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
| Iguanodontia[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
| Ornithopoda[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
| cf. Ouranosaurus[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
Saurischians
[edit | edit source]| Sauropods | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa | Presence | Notes | Images | |
| Dicraeosauridae[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | |||
| Lithostrotia[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | "(= Titanosauridae indet.)"[2] | ||
| Theropods | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa | Presence | Images | |
Bahariasaurus[2]
|
Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
| Carcharodontosauridae[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | Some specimens are similar to the genus Carcharodontosaurus.[4] | |
| Dromaeosauridae[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
| Theropoda[2] (indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Wadi Abu Hashim at Fossilworks.org
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 604-605. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- ^ Oliver W.M.Rauhut, A Dinosaur Fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Northern Sudan. In: Palaeontologie africaine,35,61-84(1999)
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