- Source: Echkar Formation
The Echkar Formation is a geological formation comprising sandstones and claystones in the Agadez Region of Niger, central Africa.
Description
Its strata date back to the Late Albian to Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian stages, about 100-95 million years ago). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Fossil content
= Vertebrates
=See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Niger
Geology of Niger
References
= Bibliography
=Young, Mark T.; Hastings, Alexander K.; Allain, Ronan; Smith, Thomas J. (2017), "Revision of the enigmatic crocodyliform Elosuchus felixi de Lapparent de Broin, 2002 from the Lower–Upper Cretaceous boundary of Niger: potential evidence for an early origin of the clade Dyrosauridae", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179: 377–403
Further reading
A. F. d. Lapparent. 1953. Gisements de Dinosauriens dans le "Continental intercalaire" d'In Abangarit (Sahara méridional) [Dinosaur localities in the "Continental Intercalaire" of In Abangarit (southern Sahara)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 236:1905-1906
P. C. Sereno, J. A. Wilson, and J. L. Conrad. 2004. New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the mid-Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271(1546):1325-1330
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- Echkar Formation
- Carcharodontosaurus
- Kaprosuchus
- Rugops
- Elrhaz Formation
- List of African dinosaurs
- Inosaurus
- Stomatosuchidae
- Notosuchia
- Laganosuchus
