Bir Abu Ben, section 5/85 (Location 4): Coniacian - Santonian, Sudan
collected 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Sudan State/province:Northern
Coordinates: 17.3° North, 30.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° South, 32.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian - Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Coniacian - Santonian
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wadi Howar
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "probably equivalent" to this formation. Footprints in "Unit I2"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation siltstone
Secondary lithology:current ripples,fine sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Unit I2: "fine-grained sandstone, horizontally bedded and ripple cross-laminated. Tetrapod footprints occur on the interface of the intercalating bioturbated siltstone layers (Unit I2)."
Environment:crevasse splay
Geology comments: low-energy deposition, "overbank deposits of a low-sinuosity fluvian environment or associated fluvio-lacustrine sub-environments"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1985
Metadata
Database number:138681
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-01-25 09:45:37 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-01-25 09:45:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

44429. G. R. Demathieu and P. Wycisk. 1990. Tetrapod trackways from southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Journal of African Earth Sciences 10(3):435-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]