Bir Abu Ben, section 5/85 (Location 4) (Cretaceous to of Sudan)

Where: Northern, Sudan (17.3° N, 30.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 24.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wadi Howar Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• "probably equivalent" to this formation. Footprints in "Unit I2"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; bioturbated siltstone and fine-grained sandstone

• low-energy deposition, "overbank deposits of a low-sinuosity fluvian environment or associated fluvio-lacustrine sub-environments"
• 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)."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected in 1985

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138681: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.01.2013

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Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Tetrapoda indet.