Wadi Milk Formation

Wadi Milk Formation
Stratigraphic range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofAsh Shamaliyah
Sub-unitsWadi Abu Hashim Member
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherSiltstone
Location
Coordinates20°00′N 30°00′E / 20.0°N 30.0°E / 20.0; 30.0
Approximate paleocoordinates4°24′N 24°42′E / 4.4°N 24.7°E / 4.4; 24.7
Country Sudan
ExtentWadi Al-Malik-Bayuda Desert
Type section
Named forWadi Al-Malik
Wadi Milk Formation is located in Sudan
Wadi Milk Formation
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

Ornithischians

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

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]
  • Bahariasaurus sp.[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

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 x y 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)