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

Ornithischians

Ornithischians
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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

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
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Bahariasaurus[2]
  • Bahariasaurus sp.[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

References

  1. ^ Wadi Abu Hashim at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ 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. 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)
  4. ^ Mortimer, Mickey (2023). "Carnosauria". The Theropod Database. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Milk_Formation
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