Where: Ash Shamaliyah, Sudan (16.7° N, 31.1° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° N, 25.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wadi Milk Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Originally considered as Cenomanian, but now thought to be dated to the Campanian–Maastrichtian (Klein et al., 2016, and references therein)
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•Agyemang et al. 2019: A maximum depositional age of 79.2 ± 2.4 Ma is demonstrated herein for the youngest detrital zircon population in the Wadi Milk Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; coarse-grained sandstone and fine-grained siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1989-
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, R. Bussert, and W. Brinkman. 1990. A new nonmarine vertebrate fauna in the Upper Cretaceous of northern Sudan. Berliner Geowissenschaftlische Abhandlungen A 120(1):183-202 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38682: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.04.2004, edited by Roger Benson and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes6
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"? Lapparentophiidae indet." = Lapparentopheidae3
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
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? Iguanodon sp.3 Mantell 1825 ornithopod also referred to as "Iguanodontidae indet."; TUB-SFB69 Vb-850
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? Carcharodontosauridae indet.5 Stromer 1931 allosauroid Bahariasaurus/Carcharodontosaurus; TUB-SFB69 Vb-718, 849, 871, 873
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Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid | |
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Kababisha sudanensis n. sp.1 Evans et al. 1996 siren TUB-SFB-69 Vb-793 (holotype atlantal centrum) and referres specimens: Vb-797-799, 801 (atlantal centra), Vb 815-816 (trunk vertebrae)
Kababisha humarensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Evans et al. 1996 siren TUB-SFB-69 Vb-791 (holotype atlantal centrum), paratypes: Vb-782 (lleft dentary), Vb-788 (basi-exoccipital), Vb-800 atlas, Vb-802-3 (trunk centra), Vb 806 (trunk neural arch). Referred material: Vb 783-787, 789-790, 792, 794-796, 804, 807 and uncatalogued material in TUB-SFB-69.
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Characiformes indet.7 Regan 1911 | |
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