Turkana Grits

Turkana Grits
Stratigraphic range: Turonian - Santonian[1]
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Rift Valley Province
Country Kenya

The Turkana Grits is a geological formation in Kenya whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains have been recovered from it.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs of the Maevarano Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Genus:

  • Lithostrotia[1]
  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]
  1. "(= cf. Titanosaurus sp.)"[1]
Remains of an animal very similar to Spinosaurus have been recovered from the Turkana Grits.

Genus:

  • ?Ornithopoda[1]
  1. Possible indeterminate ornithopod remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]

Genus:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]

Genus:

  1. cf. Spinosaurus sp.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]

Suborder:

  1. Undescribed form.[1]
  2. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]
  2. Geographically present in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.[1]
  • The suborder of carnivorous dinosaurs.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution" Pp. 517-607. in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2. " Pp. 517-607.