Oued Baouet, Téfidet (Cretaceous to of Niger)

Also known as Lapparent site 25a, Fossé du Téfidet

Where: Agadez, Niger (18.0° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 4.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tagrezou Sandstone Formation (Téfidet Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "Continental Intercalaire"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "sandy series with silicified wood"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by H. Faure in 1954

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25355: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret and Savornin 1925 allosauroid
 Loricata - Pholidosauridae
Sarcosuchus imperator1
Sarcosuchus imperator1 de Broin and Taquet 1966 crocodilian
"Aoulef crocodile"
unclassified
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Tracheophyta indet.2
Tracheophyta indet.2
"silicified wood"
1de Broin and Taquet 1966; 2Furon 1963