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