Wadi Milk Formation

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Wadi Milk Formation
Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
Type Geological formation
Unit of Ash Shamaliyah
Sub-unitsWadi Abu Hashim Member
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Other Siltstone
Location
Coordinates 20°00′N30°00′E / 20.0°N 30.0°E / 20.0; 30.0
Approximate paleocoordinates 4°24′N24°42′E / 4.4°N 24.7°E / 4.4; 24.7
CountryFlag of Sudan.svg  Sudan
Extent Wadi Al-Malik-Bayuda Desert
Type section
Named for Wadi Al-Malik
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Lightgreen pog.svg
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]

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Vertebrate paleofauna

Ornithischians

Ornithischians
TaxaPresenceImages
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]
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Saurischians

Sauropods
TaxaPresenceNotesImages
Dicraeosauridae [2] (indeterminate remains)Northern Province, Sudan. [2]
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Lithostrotia [2] (indeterminate remains)Northern Province, Sudan. [2] "(= Titanosauridae indet.)" [2]
Theropods
TaxaPresenceImages
Bahariasaurus [2]
  • Bahariasaurus sp. [2]
Northern Province, Sudan. [2]
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Carcharodontosauridae [2] (indeterminate remains)Northern Province, Sudan. [2]
Carcharodontosaurus [2] Northern Province, Sudan. [2]
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Dromaeosauridae [2] (indeterminate remains)Northern Province, Sudan. [2]
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Theropoda [2] (indeterminate remains)Northern Province, Sudan. [2]

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References

  1. Wadi Abu Hashim at Fossilworks.org
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 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. ISBN   0-520-24209-2.
  3. Oliver W.M.Rauhut, A Dinosaur Fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Northern Sudan. In: Palaeontologie africaine,35,61-84(1999)