Pyramids, Wadi Abu Hashim: Campanian - Maastrichtian, Sudan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
see common names

Geography
Country:Sudan State/province:Ash Shamaliyah
Coordinates: 16.8° North, 31.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.5° South, 32.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian - Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7 - Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Campanian - Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wadi Milk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: From basalmost 15 meters of stratigraphic section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: "multi-coloured clay- and siltstones"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "floodplain sediments, including palaeosols, crevass splay, pond, lake and swamp deposits, and the fine grained sandstones as channel and point bar deposits of coastal plain meandering rivers."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:179838
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-07-02 17:34:21 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-02 17:34:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
59656. N. Klein, R. Bussert, D. Evans, K. A. O. Salih, A. A. Eisawa, M. Nafi, and J. Müller. 2016. Turtle remains from the Wadi Milk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Sudan. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96:281-303 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]