Wadi Milk Formation

Wadi Milk Formation
Stratigraphic range: ?Albian - Cenomanian[1]
Type Geological formation
Location
Country  Sudan

The Wadi Milk Formation is a geological formation in Sudan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Ornithischians

Ornithischians of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Genus:

  • Euornithopoda[1]
  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Ouranosaurus

Genus:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Genus:

  • Ornithopoda[1]
  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Genus:

  1. cf. Ouranosaurus sp.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Saurischians

Sauropods of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Family:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Example of some Dicraeosaurids.

Genus:

  • Lithostrotia[1]
  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
  1. "(= Titanosauridae indet.)"[1]
Theropods of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Genus:

  1. Bahariasaurus sp.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Carcharodontosaurus
Carcharodontosaurus

Family:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Genus:

  1. Carcharodontosaurus sp.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Genus:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Genus:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

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 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 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.