List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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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 |
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] |