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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Sudan

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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Sudan.


Formation Member Period Notes
Nubia Formation Holocene [1]
Abu Imama Formation Middle Miocene [2]
Wadi Milk Formation Wadi Abu Hashim Campanian-Maastrichtian [3]
Shendi Formation Campanian [4]
Wadi Howar Formation Coniacian-Santonian [5]
Abu Agag Formation Turonian [6]
Bentiu Formation Barremian-Cenomanian [7]
Abu Gabra Formation Barremian-Aptian [8]

See also

References

Further reading

  • G. R. Demathieu and P. Wycisk. 1990. Tetrapod trackways from southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Journal of African Earth Sciences 10(3):435-443
  • A. A. M. Eisawi, A. B. Ibrahim, O. B. A. Rahim and E. Schrank. 2012. Palynozonation of the Cretaceous to Lower Paleogene Strata of the Muglad Basin, Sudan. Palynology 36(2):191-207
  • A. E. Marks and A. Mohammed-Ali. 1991. The Late Prehistory of the Eastern Sahel. Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX
  • J.-C. Rage and C. Werner. 1999. Mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) snakes from Wadi Abu Hashim, Sudan: The earliest snake assemblage. Palaeontologia Africana 35:85-110
  • O. W. M. Rauhut. 1999. A dinosaur fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of northern Sudan. Palaeontologia Africana 35:61-84
  • K. A. O. Salih, D. C. Evans, R. Bussert, N. Klein, M. Nafi and J. Müller. 2016. First record of Hyposaurus (Dyrosauridae, Crocodyliformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Shendi Formation of Sudan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1115408:1-9
  • J. H. Schroeder. 1985. Sparry calcite cements in Miocene corals from Khor Eit (N.E. Sudan). Proceedings 5th International Coral Reef Symposium Tahiti 3:283-288