Wadi Milk Formation
| 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 | |
| Coordinates | 20°00′N30°00′E/ 20.0°N 30.0°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 4°24′N24°42′E/ 4.4°N 24.7°E |
| Country |  Sudan |
| Extent | Wadi Al-Malik-Bayuda Desert |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Wadi Al-Malik |
  Wadi Milk Formation (Sudan) | |
TheWadi Milk Formationis a geologicalformationinSudanwhose strata date back to theLate Cretaceous.Originally, the formation was thought to beAlbiantoCenomanian,later research has provided dating to theCampaniantoMaastrichtian.[1]Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]It stretches from the lowerWadi Al-Malikacross theWadi Muqaddaminto theBayuda Desert.[3]
Vertebrate paleofauna
[edit]Ornithischians
[edit]| 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]| Sauropods | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa | Presence | Notes | Images | |
| Dicraeosauridae[2](indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] |  | ||
| Lithostrotia[2](indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | "(=Titanosauridaeindet.) "[2] | ||
| Theropods | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa | Presence | Images | |
Bahariasaurus[2]
|
Northern Province, Sudan.[2] |  | |
| Carcharodontosauridae[2](indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
| Carcharodontosaurus[2] | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] |  | |
| Dromaeosauridae[2](indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] |  | |
| Theropoda[2](indeterminate remains) | Northern Province, Sudan.[2] | ||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Wadi Abu HashimatFossilworks.org
- ^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyWeishampel, 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.ISBN0-520-24209-2.
- ^Oliver W.M.Rauhut, A Dinosaur Fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Northern Sudan. In: Palaeontologie africaine,35,61-84(1999)